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Navigate payroll compliance and workplace relations with confidence. Protect your business with Citation Legal, a leading employment law firm with over 30 years of experience.

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Citation Legal can guide you through challenging workplace compliance issues. 

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Gain expert legal advice

Citation Legal can guide you through challenging workplace compliance issues.

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Translate complex laws

Navigate industrial relations and employement laws, and systemise payroll compliance.

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Reduce underpayment risk

Gain privileged and confidential legal advice on managing identified underpayment.

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Prevent payroll compliance errors before they happen

Stay confident that your payroll is compliant with base rates and entitlements under the relevant modern awards. Citation Legal can support you with complex award interpretation, pre-payroll compliance reviews to help ensure your pay rules are correct, and keep you up to date with changes to Australia's employment laws – reducing risk before issues arise.


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Have support during workplace issues and disputes

Many workplace disputes start with pay or entitlements. With legal support on hand, you can confidently address issues such as underpayment claims, unfair dismissal, leave or overtime disagreements, and award misclassification disputes.

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Improve payroll accuracy

Accurate payroll starts with what feeds into it – contracts, rosters, policies, and leave frameworks. Citation Legal helps ensure these are compliant and can support alignment with your payroll setup.

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Navigate enterprise bargaining

Citation Legal specialises in designing and implementing enterprise bargaining agreements to achieve the best outcomes for your business and help keep you protected as IR law evolves. They can guide you through the bargaining process, mediate disputes, and advise on strategy at every stage.

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Get the legal foundations of your business right

Get expert guidance on the decisions that matter most, including drafting contracts and agreements, providing advice on contractors versus employees, navigating transfer of employment considerations in mergers and acquisitions, and structuring your business.

Protect your business

Build a better, safer, and stronger business with Citation Legal's expert team.

 
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About Citation Group

foundU joined Citation Group in 2025, deepening a partnership built on a shared commitment to keeping businesses compliant. Citation Group is a global company supporting over 120,000 clients across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Canada. In Australia, they’ve supported more than 12,000 businesses for over 30 years. Together, the mission is simple: to help businesses like yours stay safe and compliant.

Frequently asked questions

Who are Citation Legal?

Citation Legal (formerly known as FCB Workplace Law) is a team of employment law specialists based in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, with three of seven Partners accredited as specialists in employment law.

What matters can they help me with?

Their specialised employment practice mean they’re equipped to handle a broad range of employment and IR matters, including enterprise bargaining, workplace disputes, litigation, underpayments, award interpretation, and drafting and reviewing contracts and policies. 

Citation Legal can also deliver in-house training for your Board or management team on workplace issues including bullying, underpayments, managing ill and injured workers, discrimination, and handling Fair Work Commission or court claims.

Can Citation Legal support with payroll issues?

Modern awards are complex, and two payroll systems can interpret the same clause in different ways.


foundU works closely with Citation Legal to cut through complex award interpretation issues and draw on their expert legal advice and experience to determine an interpretation this is most likely to be adopted or supported by the courts. 

Transparent pricing, no surprises

Get the workforce management tools and support you need, throughout your growth journey. Choose from three unique packages, all designed to help you scale your workforce.