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Employment & Workplace Relations 'Mark Dunphy and his team were always available to our firm to provide succinct informative and useful advice accordingly. Always available and prompt replies to any areas of concern. An absolute pleasure to deal.' – Client feedback June 2021
Mark’s practice encompasses both litigious and non-litigious applications of employment and industrial relations law.
Mark is skilled in dealing with matters involving: industrial disputes and their implications; drafting and advising on enterprise agreements; award interpretation and ramifications; providing advice and acting in litigious matters regarding terminations, employee discipline, unfair dismissals, adverse action claims, common law disputes, equal opportunity, discrimination and sexual harassment claims; providing advice on the effect of legislative change on businesses; drafting and advising on employment contracts and employment audits; and employment-related areas of due diligence.
Mark is listed in The Best Lawyers in Australia in Labour and Employment Law every year since 2014 and as a recommended employment lawyer in Victoria in Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession for the last four years.
Experience
- Preparing submissions to the Productivity Commission inquiry into the Workplace Relations Framework on behalf of a large national industry body.
- Advising on the impact of matters arising from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption.
- Acting for a national manufacturing client in relation to redundancy entitlements arising from a relocation.
- Acting for a national retailer in preparing contracts for executive and senior staff.
- Acting for a retail chain with around 50 stores in Victoria and Tasmania in drafting and rolling out enterprise agreements to all stores.
- Advising many public sector organisations, and listed and private companies, on how to minimise exposure on the termination of senior employees.
Awards and recognition
Chambers 2021
Band 4, Employment (VIC)Best Lawyers in Australia 2014-2022
Partner – Labour and Employment Law and Employee Benefits LawThe Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020
Recommended – Labour and EmploymentChambers 2020
Recognised Practitioner – EmploymentDoyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession 2020
Employment Lawyers – Employer Representation (Victoria)Latest thinking
Employment & Workplace Relations | 13 Sep 2021
Changes to long service leave: when will an international employee accrue leave?
The way the courts view long service leave when it comes to overseas service may have shifted, at least in Victoria, following a recent Supreme Court of Appeal decision.