Shae McCartney

Practice Areas

Shae leads Clayton Utz's national safety practice and provides sharp counsel to large corporations. With over 25 years of expertise, Shae specialises in industrial and employment issues, strategic industrial relations, workplace health and safety, as well as legal compliance, regularly advising on monumental projects and disputes. Her clients consistently praise her deep industry insights, combined with a genuine interest and grasp of their business intricacies, resulting in consistently practical, commercially-minded, and outcome-driven legal guidance.

Industry Sector Expertise

Industrial relations

Workplace relations

Workers compensation

Workplace health and safety

Higher education

Local government

Construction

Agriculture

Manufacturing

Property development

Strategic industrial relations advice

Strategic contractor and project mangement to manage health and safety and industrial risk

Major project safety and risk management

Serious and critical incident response

Safety assurance and due diligence strategy, framework and implementation

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

Unfair dismissal

Performance management, conducting workplace investigations and terminations of employees

Managing industrial disputes

Award interpretation and application

Discrimination advice and representation

Employment agreements, including provisions on restraint of trade, confidential information, intellectual property and moral rights

Unpaid wages claims

Downsizing, restructuring and redundancy

Transmission of business

Defence of workplace health and safety prosecutions and related coronial inquest representation and advice

Managing ill or injured employees in the workplace

Independent contractors

Right of entry and practical management assistance

Not-for-profit