Holding Redlich

Workplace Relations & Safety

Managing Partner (Victoria)

Charles draws on more than 25 years’ experience in workplace relations and safety law. In addition to his legal practice, he has served as an associate to a senior deputy president of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and as a Canberra-based adviser to a federal government minister.

Charles advises and represents organisations and individuals across all aspects of employment, workplace relations and safety law, helping clients manage legal risks across the employment lifecycle. His experience includes recruitment, employment contracts, human resources policies and procedures, enterprise agreements, and the protection of confidential information, intellectual property and goodwill. He has particular expertise in advising on employee conduct and performance, workplace change and restructuring, including redundancy, redeployment, transfer of business and outsourcing/insourcing arrangements.

In addition, Charles regularly acts in matters involving wrongful and unfair dismissal, general protections, sexual harassment and discrimination complaints. He advises on compliance with industrial and workplace health and safety laws and represents clients in investigations and prosecutions undertaken by the regulators.

He also has significant experience in enterprise bargaining, including advising on good faith requirements, capacity for tribunal intervention, protected and unprotected industrial action, and the making and implementation of agreements.

Charles has been recognised as a 5-Star Employment Lawyer by HRD Australia and, since 2013, as a leading practitioner in Labour and Employment Law and Employee Benefits Law by The Best Lawyers in Australia, which also named him Lawyer of the Year in Employee Benefits in 2021. He has also been listed in Doyle’s Guide as a leading lawyer in Employment (Employer Representation) for Victoria since 2022.

Member of Australian Human Resources Institute