Insurance & Representation

If you’ve gotten advice from our Telephone Advisory Service and someone later comes at you with a claim, don’t worry, we’ll take care of it. The HR Assured insurance policy covers employment-related claims including unfair dismissal, unlawful termination, bullying, discrimination, alleged underpayment of entitlements, as well as claims in breach of civil remedy provisions. You’re covered for losses up to $2 million in any one year for damages, judgement, settlement, legal costs/expenses, defence costs and investigation costs.

There’s NO excess on the insurance policy and, unlike workers’ compensation insurance, we won’t review or increase the cost of your HR Assured package if you make a claim. It’s important to understand that we’re not an insurance company. Instead, the insurance cover we provide is underwritten by one of Australia’s leading insurers. As a result, we have no vested interest in refusing a claim, just a vested interest in making sure 100 percent of our clients are covered 100 percent of the time.

If a claim is made against you by an employee, as part of your HR Assured package you’ll be represented by FCB Workplace Law. FCB Workplace Law is Australia’s leading workplace relations law firm and is, like us, part of FCB Group. FCB Workplace Law only practises in the area of workplace relations and has more Accredited Specialists in this area than any firm in Australia. The firm has been established for over 25 years and is equivalent to (or larger than) the entire workplace relations teams in most top-tier firms. This means that even if your matter becomes litigious it’ll be handled within the FCB Group, not transferred to a third-party legal services provider.

Handling things in-house means the matter won’t be transferred to a law firm that knows nothing about you or your business. An unknown third party won’t access your confidential and commercially sensitive information. You won’t have to rehash the matter with a new advisor. With access to relevant documents, including your HRA Cloud employee records, TAS notes and call log, we can assess the matter, prepare briefs, gather evidence and take action in a fraction of the time taken by an external law firm: a matter of days to prepare everything we need, instead of weeks (or even months). And because HR Assured is part of the FCB Group, we’re there with you, in-touch with what’s going on, accountable and responsible for managing the matter with you, every step of the way.