Jan Dransfield

Practice Areas

- Employment & Industrial Relations

Career

Jan is a pre-eminent employment lawyer with over 25 years’ experience advising leading corporates and multinationals on all aspects of employment and industrial law, anti- discrimination and harassment, remuneration and benefits, superannuation, and work health and safety.

Leading corporates and multinationals go to Jan for advice on their most sensitive, high profile or complex matters including corporate restructures, significant employee claims or disputes, senior executive and board matters, whistleblower investigations, and workforce/HR strategy and compliance.

In a constantly changing environment, Jan gives her clients a competitive edge by being across legal and HR developments.

She advises across a range of sectors, including transport, information technology, education, media, financial services, pharmaceuticals, sport and retail. Jan has been a trusted advisor to the Qantas Group for over 25 years.

With extensive experience handling complex employment related claims, she has had the successful conduct of significant litigation before state and federal courts, the Fair Work Commission and anti-discrimination tribunals.

Jan has niche expertise in workplace learning as well as delivering training at Board and senior management level.

Jan is regularly recognised as a leading employment lawyer in Chambers & Partners.

For additional information on Jan’s professional background and work highlights, please visit: https://jws.com.au/our-people/jan-dransfield/.