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Catholic Employment Relations (CER)

We provide expert employment relations, human resources, industrial and legal advice for Catholic employers.
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How can we help?

CER provides specialised support and services for education, diocesan, health, religious institutes, social services, and aged care sectors.

We integrate human resources, employment relations and legal services to address all your workplace needs. 

We offer a comprehensive range of services including mediation, investigation, training, employment and industrial relations advice. As a CER subscriber you can access expert support and legal advice tailored to your needs.

Our experienced multidisciplinary team of employment relations specialists, mediators and lawyers, ensures that we can handle your matters from start to finish. We recognise the unique requirements of different sectors and provide individually tailored support. We can manage your complex employment relations matters with you to provide the best outcome for your organisation.

The sectors we work with

  • Education
  • Diocesan
  • Health
  • Religious Institutes and Retreats
  • Social Services and Aged Care

Our services

Employment Relations

Our team of experienced and qualified Employment Relations Specialists have been advising Catholic employers for over 20 years. We understand your workplace and the desire to balance religious and moral obligations with business needs.

We can draft your complex correspondence, attend conciliation talks and manage disciplinary and other complex matters with you. CER’s suite of services means we can provide you with a streamlined service for all your workplace needs.

Legal Services

We can help you with a matter from start to finish, from simple Employment Relations advice, all the way through to mediation, investigation and complex legal advice. We can also provide representation on your behalf in a court of law. 

Whether it’s advice on what should or shouldn’t be included in a legally binding document or representing you when things go wrong, we are here to help. 

Human Resources

We can help you review, refine and develop your teams to secure optimum results for your organisation. 

Not only do we provide advice on workforce planning and restructuring, but we also provide bespoke training options to develop the skills of your existing team. 

We provide employment contracts and can help with payroll and leave and entitlement queries. We can work with you to adapt our template policies and procedures to ensure you have all the necessary checks and balances in place. 

Industrial Relations

We are here to answer any questions or queries you have about your existing awards and agreements, help resolve industrial disputes and act as your bargaining representative. Our approach ensures you receive a clear strategy, timely communication and feedback.

The CER portal

Our range of resources, templates, guidelines and policies save you the legwork of creating them yourself. The CER portal is a ‘one-stop- shop’ for all the information you need at your fingertips. 

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As a subscription benefit, you have exclusive access to a wide range of resources in a centralised location. Subscribers can view and edit personal information and preferences so that they are notified when new resources, updates and training are available in your area of interest.

Our resource library of templates, policies and guidelines are available to download, and new content is added on a weekly basis. Find out more on the CER website.

How to become a CER subscriber

Being a CER subscriber means you have a support team with legal expertise with you all the way.

We work with you to prevent workplace issues from arising - and support you when they do, by providing expert employment relations, industrial relations support, human resources and legal advice, all through a Catholic lens. 

Depending on your needs, we work with you to enhance and extend your in-house capabilities. Our ongoing and recommended services help fill capability gaps in your organisation and develop your teams’ skills to improve organisational outcomes. 

Our service package model provides clarity on our scope of services that meets our clients broad range of needs on an individual basis, all at an affordable and competitive cost. 

Discuss your options by getting in touch.

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