Employment: Victoria

Herbert Smith Freehills has a market-leading full-service employment practice, widely endorsed for its deft handling of Australia's largest industrial relations matters, including enterprise bargaining, disputes and industrial action. It covers the full gamut of employee relations such as terminations, redundancy and discrimination, also possessing notable expertise in workplace health and safety matters. The firm represents prominent energy, construction, transport and financial clients, and notable names include Chevron, Optus and DuluxGroup.

"The Herbert Smith Freehills team has sound knowledge of the law and practice in this area, together with a good commercial lens to navigate complexities."

"I find the whole workplace relations team is commercially minded. They provide their advice from the client's perspective, which is super helpful when managing a corporate's various stakeholders."

Herbert Smith Freehills assisted Coles with the remediation of the historical underpayment of salaried employees covered by the General Retail Industry Award 2010.

Anthony Wood has a broad practice which encompasses compliance, employee claims, enterprise bargaining and workplace health and safety. "He can provide top-level strategic advice and is very responsive." "He gets straight to the point, is responsive and has a wealth of information about what is going on in other organisations."

Rohan Doyle is a well-regarded employment law practitioner in Victoria, recognised for his expertise in enterprise bargaining and industrial relations disputes. "Rohan is an outstanding legal and commercial adviser." "He is exceptional."