Milly Khan

Milly is a Senior Associate in the Workplace Relations & Safety team in Sydney. Milly's communication skills, enthusiasm and knowledge of her clients’ business enables her to provide targeted, practical solutions to legal issues.

Experience

Milly advises clients in a broad range of workplace related matters. Her practice focuses on day-to-day employment and industrial advice on topics such as performance management and disciplinary matters, termination of employment, employment contracts and workplace policies, restructuring and redundancies, application of industrial instruments and management of workplace disputes.

She brings significant experience advising clients across a variety of sectors, including education, multi-national hotel groups, international film and entertainment companies, manufacturing and aged care.

Milly also has extensive experience with employment related disputes, unfair dismissal, general protections, underpayments, discrimination and restraint of trade matters.

With a strong interest in finding proactive workplace solutions, Milly regularly delivers training and education sessions to business leaders and HR professionals.

Milly's areas of expertise include:

• unfair dismissal and general protections
• development of workplace policies and employment contracts
• general employment law advice
• disciplinary action and termination of employment
• workforce restructuring, organisational change and redundancies
• work health and safety compliance
• delivering practical employment advice in relation to corporate transactions
• managing ill and injured workers, and
• workplace health and safety.

Career highlights

Milly's career highlights include:

• appearing in the Fair Work Commission in a jurisdictional objection claim for a global engineering company
• assisting a federal government agency on a complex and sensitive general protections matter, involving both legal strategy and reputational risk considerations
• providing modern award and pay advice, including classifying employees under the correct modern awards for a Fortune 500 company, ensuring compliance across their Australian operations
• providing timely and proactive advice to employers regarding their obligations under COVID-19 public health orders and directions in each state and territory in Australia
• representing a national construction company during a high-profile fatality investigation in New South Wales
• completing a secondment with an ASX-listed hospitality and entertainment group.