Meet the Team
Dan Tan
Senior Manager
Dan joined ER Strategies as Senior Manager, Employee Relations in 2022, with an extensive career working across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
David Price
General Manager
David is the General Manager at ER Strategies. He joined the team in 2012 after spending 5 years working with the Fair Work Ombudsman in a workplace investigatory capacity.
> More about DavidOur Mission
At ER Strategies, we strive to be the cornerstone of ER / IR support and advice for our clients. Unlike most lawyers we won’t tell you what you cannot do, we provide you with proactive and practical compliance strategies that minimize risk for your organisation without compromising commercial viability. We work tirelessly to balance ethical responsibility, your organisation’s success and your employees’ happiness.
Our Values
Your Trusted Partner
We empower businesses to create harmonious and productive work environments.
Integrity
We value transparency and nurture honest and open relationships between our clients and their business partners and employees.
Collaboration
We work in partnership with our clients to support your businesses to grow, and to protect your brand and industry status.
Ethical Responsibility
We respect the importance of fostering ethically responsible and harmonious working environments that protect the rights of both the employer and in turn, their employees.
Our History
There is always a catalyst or spark of inspiration to commence a new enterprise. This is true for the birth of ER Strategies, with Steve Champion’s strong desire to start his own employee relations consulting business to make his specialised skills and experience in that field available to a wider audience in 1999. He started his own consulting company that operated out of the rumpus room in Steve and Wendy’s house for the first couple of years.
The initial inception of ER Strategies comprised a silent partner and soon 3 employees, being Steve, Wendy and their first employee Jonathan. With our steady success, we soon outgrew the rumpus room and moved into offices in Berry St, North Sydney.
ER Strategies’ initial packaged service offering was LabourNet, a product that early clients such as Sydney Kitchens, Glidepath and the KFC Franchisee Association embraced and who are still valued clients today. ER Strategies soon expanded into other aligned enterprises, such as offering workers comp premium discount services and a mystery customer program, which was originally developed to provide service performance feedback to registered clubs in NSW and then developed to service other industries.
In 2012, David Price entered the ER Strategies arena as a Senior Consultant, following his previous employment as an Inspector with the Fair Work Ombudsman. He now is our General Manager overseeing the daily operational workflow of our business and ensuring our product offering is in line with ever-changing legislation.
Moving premises has been an indicator of our continued growth and success, with our subsequent moves from Berry St to Mount St in North Sydney, then to North Ryde, before our move to our current location almost on top of Chatswood Station.
In recent years ERS has significantly expanded to address non-compliance activities revealed by the media in the franchise sector. Our specialised product offerings now extend to support many franchised organisations alongside our continued exceptional service for our other corporate and small business clients across a range of industries.
Our staff share our founders’ passion for fostering harmonious and productive work environments for our valued client base. Our team supports various disciplines within the business ranging from employee and industrial relations, human resources, accounting and administration, payroll auditing, and Sales and Marketing.
Our Process
Review
We evaluate your current risk and compliance status and learn about your business. This equips us with the knowledge we need to suggest the right options for your organisation.
Plan
Our team will align service options with your business requirements and objectives to empower you to take appropriate action in working towards employment law compliance.
Deliver
We put measures in place that will protect your business from compliance risks and support your team with advice they need to make the right decisions.
Check
ER Strategies provide regular audits and reports to determine if systems and people are making the right decisions. We ensure that services we put in place are working and your employment law compliance risk is reduced.