Rosemary has over 18 years’ experience in advising and representing private and public sector organisations in all areas of employment law and industrial relations. She specialises in partnering with State, Federal and Local Government, bringing deep insight into the unique challenges faced by government agencies in managing workplace and industrial relations matters.
Rosemary’s expertise encompasses a broad range of employment law matters, ensuring compliance, mitigating risks, and resolving complex legal issues efficiently. Drawing on her extensive in-house legal experience at a large NSW government agency, she has deep expertise working with government clients.
Rosemary assists clients with complex issues involving employee and external complaints, discrimination matters, bullying and harassment, unfair dismissal, general protections claims, redundancies, transfer of business considerations, flexible working arrangements, workplace injury management and an employee’s return to work, performance management, and investigating potential misconduct, including termination of employment.
- Advising a large State government agency regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and successfully defending multiple unfair dismissal claims in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission.
- Advising a large private sector import company involving an extensive review of applicable awards, interpretation of same and implementation of correct award entitlements.
- Advising a Federal government agency in relation to re-organisation and restructure, including review of relevant contracts and calculating entitlements owed to impacted staff.
- Advising a large Federal government agency in successfully defending an unfair dismissal application in the Fair Work Commission where the employee was not dismissed at the initiative of the employer.
- Advising a Federal government agency in relation to interpretation of overtime clause in EA and rectification of underpayments.
- Directors and Officers Liability
- Inquiries, Investigations and Prosecutions
- Sexual Harassment, Bullying and Discrimination
- Work Health and Safety
- Workplace Investigations
- Workplace
- Education
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Public Sector
- Law Society of New South Wales
- Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association
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