Hall & Wilcox

hallandwilcox.com.au

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Labour and Employment

Aaron Dearden

Aaron has extensive employment and industrial relations law experience. Specifically, he specialises in enterprise bargaining, industrial strategies and disputes, disciplinary and performance matters, independent contractor claims, corporate restructuring and outsourcing, managing ill and injured workers, breach of contract claims, and enforcement of restraints of trade. Aaron acts for prominent Australian and international companies across a range of industries.

Alison Baker

Alison has more than 20 years’ experience in a wide-ranging employment practice, advising private sector and public sector clients on all aspects of employment, industrial relations and human resources law, and work health and safety law. She also advises private and public sector organisations on the application of privacy legislation.

Fay Calderone

For over 20 years, Fay has acted for employers across a range of industries including professional services, manufacturing, sport, health, aged care, community services and local councils focused always on the purpose and imperatives of the organisations she is servicing. As a specialist on all matters touching the workplace, Fay provides practical advice and guidance on proactive compliance, change management and restructuring, discrimination, bullying, harassment, misconduct investigations, performance management, enterprise agreements, and industrial disputes. In circumstances where disputes cannot be resolved, Fay represents employers in proceedings before industrial tribunals, including unfair dismissals, adverse action claims, and restraint matters in State and Federal Courts.

David Catanese

David is a Partner in the Hall & Wilcox Employment and Workplace Relations team predominately based in Melbourne. He is an expert in employment law in both private sector and Government contexts. David acts for large, medium and small enterprises, the Commonwealth and State Governments, high net worth individuals and pro bono clients. He operates in all relevant jurisdictions regarding employment, industrial relations, anti-discrimination and occupational health and safety matters, and regularly conducts litigation in the Fair Work Commission, Federal and State Courts, VCAT and before other professional tribunals and boards. David routinely advises clients on employee complaints and grievances, workplace investigations, governance issues, restructures, policy development and training (including anti-discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying policies) and Executive employment matters. David has a wealth of both private and public sector legal experience, having worked in private sector law firms, as a lawyer for the Commonwealth and as Managing Principal Solicitor for a State Government. David understands commercial imperatives as well as the unique statutory and policy environment relevant to Government clients. David has a practical and goal-oriented approach to both providing front-end advice and the conduct of litigation. He focuses on understanding his clients’ interests and taking a strategic approach to achieve them

Mark Dunphy

Mark is a Partner in the Employment and Workplace Relations team at Hall & Wilcox. With close to 30 years' experience, Mark's practice encompasses both litigious and non-litigious applications of employment and industrial relations law. Mark is skilled in dealing with matters involving industrial disputes, industrial strategy, employee discipline, unfair dismissals, adverse action claims, common law disputes, equal opportunity and discrimination and sexual harassment claims. He provides advice on the effect of legislative change on businesses, award interpretation and ramifications and industrial disputes and their implications. He has expertise in drafting and advising on enterprise agreements, providing advice and acting in litigious matters regarding terminations, drafting and advising on employment contracts and employment audits, and employment related areas of due diligence.

Kristopher Kunasingam

Kristopher leads the migration practice at Hall & Wilcox. He advises on all aspects of migration to Australia, with particular emphasis on employment-related migration. He has advised a wide range of clients, including large public and international companies, as well as small-to-medium enterprises. Kristopher also has experience in assisting individuals with their migration matters, including skilled, business, investor, high net worth individuals and family visa applicants. He is also involved in tribunal and court matters appealing visa and citizenship refusals. Businesses have engaged Kristopher to perform and prepare audit reports on their visa workforce, develop strategies to meet migration regulatory requirements and provide ad-hoc advice on all visa matters.

Rosemary Roach

Rosie has over 20 years' experience in employment, industrial, work health and safety and discrimination law. Rosie has assisted clients with large and diverse workforces, across a variety of industries on all aspects of employment law and industrial relations, from sensitive disciplinary matters to dealing with complex industrial strategies and litigation. Rosie enjoys getting to know her clients and their business imperatives. Rosie understands how important it is to communicate legal issues in a manner that makes sense to the client and addresses their objectives. Clients appreciate the calm, thoughtful and pragmatic approach Rosie brings to each issue, no matter the size or complexity.

Karl Rozenbergs

Karl is a Partner and leads the Employment and Workplace Relations team at Hall & Wilcox. He is an experienced litigator and a skilled negotiator, and provides clear, strategic, and cost-effective advice. With over 25 years of experience, Karl advises clients across a broad range of employment and industrial issues. He is highly experienced in providing advice on negotiating and implementing enterprise agreements, defending unfair dismissal claims, discrimination claims, and contractual disputes.

Team Services

A number of our senior lawyers are named in the Best Lawyers list and our employment team is ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific 2020-2022, which comments: ‘Regularly advises employers across the range of contentious industrial and employee relations matters, including union disputes, restraint of trade matters and workplace harassment. Also able to assist with the employment aspects of restructurings’.

Our leading employment law team offers expertise across all areas of employment and industrial relations law. We are also experienced litigators and advocates, representing clients in all types of employment-related litigation in the Fair Work Commission, anti-discrimination tribunals and the courts.

With six dedicated employment partners and a wealth of talent across our national team, we provide practical, commercial advice and strategic solutions to our clients. We partner with our clients to protect their interests, deliver their workplace strategies and, when the need arises, defend them from employment-related claims.

Our team is experienced in handling sensitive, high-profile matters where reputation is paramount. We manage these cases with care and with the high level of service for which we are known.

We advise on:

discrimination and equal opportunity;
industrial relations;
migration services;
privacy;
restraints of trade, employment claims and transfer of business issues; and
work, health and safety.

We serve public and private organisations that are based locally or offshore with Australian interests. They operate in a range of industries, including manufacturing, banking and financial services, insurance, education, mining, aged care, retail, film and television, storage and distribution, construction, recruitment, agribusiness, information technology, horticulture and transport.