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Harmers Workplace Lawyers Archive

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Lactose Tolerant: Breastfeeding Gong Affirms Clayton Utz’s Commitment to Women

9 September 2011

Beleaguered by the repeated allegations that it is a "hostile place for women to work", not to mention having been striken from the EOWA register as an Employer of Choice for Women, Clayton Utz is ...

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Update; New Claims in Clayton Utz v Michael “Trench” Mitchell Saga

5 March 2010

Short of an earthquake shredding razing its offices, things could probably not get much worse for Clayton Utz right now. A few weeks ago we heard the scandalous details of the defections of over...

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Cardiac Arrest? Firm Spy Receives Unconfirmed Rumour of Pay Cut Plan at DLA

8 July 2009

Embattled major national firm DLA Phillips Fox appears to be at it again. We received the following email from an anonymous DLAPF spy last night: Not only have DLA Phillips Fox had two rounds of r...

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Deloitte Denies Claims that Workers are being ‘Managed Out’

18 June 2009

Deloitte's Vessa Playfair, the same character who took a pot-shot at other Big 4 accounting firms by saying 'they have been prepared to retrench and we haven't' when the firm instituted a pay freez...

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Middletons Merges With Brisbane Firm Flower & Hart as Baker & McKenzie Considers QLD Office

23 January 2012

Australia's 15th largest law firm by revenue Middletons became slightly bigger on Friday with the announcement that it would merge with Birsbane firm Flower & Hart. Middletons currently has a p...

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Deloitte: Australia’s 26th Best Place to Work, But Not for Darwinian “Business Women”

14 July 2011

We're not sure how the BRW calculates The 50 Best Places to Work, but we're confident that in relation to #26 it is not by speaking with anyone who actually works there: 26. Deloitte The Firm h...

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Rumour; PwC Managers Paid $17k Less in 2010 Than in 2008 as Morale Bottoms Out

13 July 2010

In an article aptly entitled Accountants feel duped on pay rises, the AFR (25/6) walked readers through the poor salary sentiment pervanding Big4 accounting firms: A survey has found that 35 per c...

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‘Fail 3 CA Subjects & You’re Fired’; Deloitte CA Policy

1 December 2009

In response to our articles profiling the CA policies of Big4 accounting firms, first at PwC and then at Ernst & Young, we received the following anonymous tip from a Deloitte spy: Look Deloitte is not too far behind. Experienced analysts only earn $2k more a year than grads. Also, if you fail 1 subject you get a warning, 2 subjects a written warning and 3… you’re fired! You'll recall that at Ernst & Young, the following was sent to us: I’d like to mention that Ernst & Young also has the same policy to PwC in terms of failing 2 CA subjects and you’re out. But on top of that, if we fail a subject we owe E&Y $1k (per subject) for study assistance /time off etc. Can you believe it? We already work ridiculous hours to get through the piles of work AND we also hav...

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Minter Ellison’s ‘Bomber Bower’ & The Papuan New Guinean Teenage Footballer

19 August 2009

On Friday last week we reported the revelation that Minter Ellison partner Scott Reid (in his capacity as an emissary of the AFL's mission to PNG) is presently sharing a house with Papua New Guinea...

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AAR’s Susan Ferrier & the ‘Critically Low’ AAR Lawyer Morale

4 February 2010

Last week we published a story in which we quoted AAR spokesperson Susan Ferrier as saying that there would not be an "exodus" of lawyer in 2010 because there are few job opportunities available. In response to that post, we received the following embittered comments from an anonymous AAR spy: Susan Ferrier has no idea. Lawyer morale at Allens is at a critical low, people will flood to Freehills who are keenly making the most of this opportunity already. Freehills has positioned itself as the least tight of the top tiers of late. You can’t expect to institute the pay freeze first, be the last to unfreeze, make everyone take annual leave over the christmas break with only half a day on Christmas Eve as bonus leave (Mallesons aren’t even this tight), reveal potential dramatic remu...

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