Senior roles come with different stakes, and different fine print.
Here's how executive employment issues are handled differently.
Executive and senior employees often assume ordinary employment protections don't apply to them, or that their contracts are too complex to challenge, neither is necessarily true, but the issues do tend to be higher-value and more contractually complex than most employee matters.
The right advice for a senior situation usually depends on exactly what's happening, so this page routes you to the specific area that fits.
Questions senior employees ask us
Generally yes, but the high-income threshold matters more, above it, eligibility typically depends on being covered by an award or enterprise agreement. See our dedicated page on executive unfair dismissal.
More complex remuneration (bonuses, equity, deferred pay), longer notice periods, and restraint of trade or confidentiality clauses are all more common and more consequential at this level.
More common, yes, since senior roles more often involve genuine confidential information and client relationships worth protecting. More enforceable isn't automatic though, the same reasonableness test applies regardless of seniority.
The underlying process is similar, but the numbers, and what's worth negotiating, bonuses, equity vesting, references, are usually considerably more complex.
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