stuart_pill

Key Areas

  • Employment Law
  • Contracts and Confidentiality Issues
  • Industrial Relations
  • Enterprise Bargaining and Strategy
  • Occupational Health & Safety
  • Discrimination and Harassment
  • Unfair Dismissal

Stuart Pill

Stuart is one of the founding partners of Trindade Farr and Pill. Stuart practices in all areas of workplace relations and has particular experience in workplace change projects including restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing.

Over the last decade Stuart has provided strategic and day-to-day advice to private and public sector clients in the manufacturing, higher education, construction and service industries.
Stuart has demonstrated expertise in development and implementation of compliance programs, managing industrial disputation, equal opportunity matters and employment litigation including wrongful and unfair dismissal and contested occupational health and safety matters.

Skills and Experience:

Stuart has undertaken a wide range of employment and industrial law matters ranging from unfair dismissal and discrimination cases to legal and strategic advice in relation to employment contracts and enterprise bargaining. The matters include:

  • Successfully obtaining injunctions in the State Supreme Courts, Federal Court and Orders in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to prevent industrial action in relation to enterprise bargaining for a number of national companies.
  • Development of equal opportunity and sexual harassment policy and complaint handling procedures for 26 companies in a manufacturing group.
  • Advising in relation to industrial relations and employment aspects of sale of a multi-national company.
  • Successfully representing five major universities in defending a claim for new award conditions to apply to approximately 40,000 staff.
  • Advising a large manufacturing company on prevention strategies for occupational health and safety.
  • Developing and implementing a successful negotiation strategy for the Group of Eight Universities in relation to casual employment in the higher education sector.
  • Successful implementation of an AWA strategy for an overseas based bank commencing retail operations in Australia.

Relevant Presentations and Publications:

Stuart is an accomplished presenter of both internal and external seminars and training courses, including in relation to dismissal laws, sale of business and transmission issues and discrimination and sexual harassment.

Stuart has also taught the industrial relations module as part of the Macquarie University Payroll Management Certificate Course, has been a presenter at the Australian Institute of Company Directors course and has regularly delivered papers at BLEC and IIC Conferences. He is a guest lecturer in the Masters of Labour Law at Melbourne University.

Qualifications and Affiliations:

  • LLM Melbourne University (2005)
  • LLB (Hons) Monash University (1996)
  • BSc. Monash University (1993)

Stuart is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria. He is a member of the advisory Board of the Australian Centre For Labour Relations Law and is also a member of AHRI.

Admitted to Practise:

  • Supreme Court of Victoria (1997)
  • High Court of Australia (1997)

Contact

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