Anna Casellas

Practice Areas

Anna has extensive experience in advising on employment, industrial relations and safety issues. Anna advises and represents clients in both contentious and non-contentious matters, such as employment advice and litigation, unfair dismissal and adverse action, equal opportunity and anti discrimination, managing industrial action, enterprise bargaining and preparing employment and contractor agreements. She also regularly helps clients with executive and director engagement, termination matters, due diligence and corporate transactional support, complex restructuring and workplace change programs. Anna has run many large scale pieces of litigation and employee entitlement reviews and remediation programs.

Industry Sector Expertise

Local Government

Agriculture

Higher Education

Development and implementation of strategic industrial relations advice

Negotiation, facilitation and advocacy (in relation to agreement-making and dispute resolution)

Unfair dismissal advocacy and advice

Advice and assistance in relation to all aspects of performance management, conducting workplace investigations and terminations of employees

Advice and assistance in relation to managing industrial disputes

Award interpretation and application advice

Discrimination advice and representation before State and Federal regulatory bodies

Not for profit

Drafting of employment agreements including provisions concerning:

Industrial relations

Restraint of trade

Protection of confidential information

Intellectual property and moral rights

Unpaid wages claims

Downsizing, restructuring and redundancy advice

Advice and assistance in relation to managing ill or injured employees in the workplace

Independent contractor advice and assistance

Right of entry advice and practical management assistance