Christie Toy

Christie is an experienced employment and industrial relations lawyer to private and government clients.

Christie's practice has a particular focus on Queensland public sector employment.

Experience

Christie has advisory and litigation experience in workplace law, industrial matters, including enterprise bargaining, discrimination law, and discipline matters across both state and federal jurisdictions.

Christie has a strong background in Queensland public sector employment, having performed numerous secondments to Queensland government departments where she has led workplace law teams.

Christie's areas of expertise include:

• industrial relations issues, including award and agreement interpretation
• enterprise agreement and collective bargaining issues, including strategy and approval
• discrimination and human rights law
• discipline matters, including discipline processes under the Public Sector Act 2022 (QLD)
• unfair dismissal and general protections
• workplace investigations
• executive officer and statutory officer appointments and terminations
• managed ill and injured workers
• defending sexual harassment and bullying claims
• industrial Action
• compliance with whistleblowing/public interest disclosure and anti-corruption legislation.

Career highlights

Christie's career highlights include:

• acting for the State of Queensland in several contested arbitrations for replacement collective agreements
• successfully obtaining orders to stop unprotected industrial action taken by teachers, and successfully defending the matter on appeal
• successfully acting for the State in one of the first cases decided under the newly introduced stop-bullying provisions in the Industrial Relations Act 2016 (QLD)
• advising on large scale industrial action taken by a large number of employees in the health system
• successfully amending modern award coverage in the public sector to include a cohort of employees traditionally not included, including advising on terms and conditions of employment and award compliance
• spending time on secondment to government departments to lead and develop workplace teams.