Employment: Victoria
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : Australia
Band 5
Contact number
+61.3.9205.2000Chambers Review
K&L Gates maintains an active employee relations and workplace safety practice advising clients from the construction, education and health sectors, as well as non-profit organisations and government entities. The team handles complex employment disputes before the Fair Work Commission and in the courts. It provides expertise across discrimination and employee terminations.
Work Highlights
- K&L Gates provided strategic advice to Murrays in relation to enterprise bargaining to replace various state-based enterprise agreements and ensure legal compliance.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Not only do they deliver what a client expects from a great law firm - timely, commercial, and accurate advice - but the team does so in a down-to-earth, accessible and always professional manner."
"K&L Gates possess exceptional knowledge and communication skills, which allows complex advice to be distilled into practical actions for their clients."
"Not only do they deliver what a client expects from a great law firm - timely, commercial, and accurate advice - but the team does so in a down-to-earth, accessible and always professional manner."
"K&L Gates possess exceptional knowledge and communication skills, which allows complex advice to be distilled into practical actions for their clients."
Notable Practitioners
Michaela Moloney is a frequent adviser to clients in relation to a range of employee and industrial relations matters.
"Michaela is responsive and willing to understand. If I ask Michaela to do something, she just does it, no chasing required."
"Michaela Moloney is excellent; she's very responsive and sensitive to the environment I operate in. She provides user-friendly advice that's easy to implement in a complex environment."
Nick Ruskin leads the team in Melbourne and is noted for his work in relation to a variety of employment matters, including employee disputes as well as industrial relations issues.
"Nick is a delight to work with. He is pragmatic, commercially astute and his responsiveness and level of customer engagement is second to none."
"Nick's manner with us is really first-rate. He gets our business, our strategies and our priorities, which is invaluable."