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Aras Mollison

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Aras is workplace relations and safety lawyer, with a particular focus on industrial relations. He completed the graduate program at Lander & Rogers and has been practising in the Workplace Relations & Safety group since 2017.

Experience

Prior to joining Lander & Rogers Aras worked in the government sector, at a small commercial legal practice and volunteered in an employment law legal centre.

Aras assists a broad range of clients in litigated matters. He also plays an active role in mentoring junior lawyers.

Aras' expertise covers all areas of workplace relations and safety law, including:

  • modern awards and enterprise bargaining agreements
  • industrial disputes, including related to protected industrial action
  • unfair dismissal and general protections
  • class actions
  • contracts and post-employment restraints of trade
  • bullying, harassment, victimisation and anti-discrimination
  • workplace investigations
  • occupational health and safety
  • general employment law advice and litigation, including performance management and redundancies.

Aras is also heavily involved in the firm's pro bono work, previously holding a role as one of the firm's pro bono referral coordinators.

Career highlights

Aras' career highlights include:

  • assisting with the conduct of one of Australia's first employment law class actions
  • undertaking multiple secondments at an emergency services organisation, major retailer and large local government body
  • providing end-to-end assistance with the enterprise agreement process, including contested approvals
  • conducting the advocacy in Fair Work Commission and VCAT hearings
  • assisting to successfully defend a number of employment claims and industrial disputes in various courts and tribunals
  • conducting the advocacy in conciliations and directions hearings before the courts, the Fair Work Commission, VEOHRC and VCAT.

Aras was recognised for Litigation in the Best Lawyers in Australia: Ones to Watch list in 2023 and 2024.