Mr Luis Izzo > Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors > Sydney, Australia > Lawyer Profile
Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors Offices
Level 8
8 Chifley Square
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
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Mr Luis Izzo
Work Department
Workplace and Employment
Position
Managing Director – Sydney Workplace
Career
Luis has over a decade’s experience practicing as a specialist employment and industrial relations lawyer acting for a broad range of employers across both the private and public sector.
Luis’ advocacy experience in State and Federal Courts and Tribunals is extensive. In addition to achieving successful outcomes for clients as an advocate in numerous unfair dismissal and industrial dispute arbitrations, Luis acted as one of the lead employer advocates in the 2014/2015 Fair Work Commission Annual Leave Test Case as well as the highly publicised 2016/2017 Penalty Rates Test Case. Following heavily contested hearings in both proceedings, Luis ultimately succeeded in securing a raft of amendments to modern awards in respect of both annual leave and weekend penalty rates.
Luis is the trusted advisor for a number of organisations when it comes to large scale industrial bargaining. In the public sector, he has been the key advisor on department-wide enterprise agreement negotiations, covering tens of thousands of public sector employees. In the private sector, Luis has advised on enterprise bargaining for the transport, education, aviation, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries. This experience has also extended to obtaining orders preventing unlawful industrial action and successfully resisting good faith bargaining claims and scope order applications filed by union parties.
Luis has conducted numerous investigations for clients in relation to internal employment disputes and bullying and harassment matters and continues to be a lead litigator in the developing field of General Protections and bullying litigation.
In addition to working in private practice, Luis has been seconded to the Australian Federal Police and the Fair Work Ombudsman, working on a variety of employment related litigations and prosecutions and is a member of the Law Society of NSW’s Employment Law Committee.
Languages
English
Memberships
Law Society of NSW, Industrial Relations Society of NSW
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
Australia > Labour and employment
With offices in Brisbane, Newcastle and Sydney, the ‘extremely talented’ team at Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors attracts an impressive clientele of corporate multinationals, financial institutions and insurers seeking aid on various employment matters. The practice is co-chaired by Nigel Ward, who has 35 years of experience in employee and industrial relations and regularly represents clients in court, Luis Izzo, a ‘superstar’ in the field and advisor to the public and private sector, and Kyle Scott, who expertly handles enterprise bargaining, post-employment restraints as well as employment litigation.