Sophie is a Senior Associate in the Lander & Rogers Workplace Relations & Safety team, based in Melbourne. Her general areas of practice are employment, industrial relations and safety.
Sophie is known for her clear and commercially grounded advice and has a strong understanding of regulatory expectations and enforcement strategies.
Experience
Sophie's relevant experience includes advising on:
- disciplinary action and termination of employment
- unfair dismissal and adverse action
- enterprise bargaining and industrial relations disputes
- developing and implementing workplace policies and procedures
- redundancy and restructure
- transfer of business and related strategy
- interpretation and application of enterprise agreements and modern awards
- restraint of trade and protection of confidential information
- executive remuneration and benefits
- sexual harassment and discrimination claims
- work health and safety compliance
- employment due diligence.
Career highlights
Sophie's career highlights include:
- representing private and pro bono clients in unfair dismissal and general protections claims in the Fair Work Commission
- assisting in the representation of a Victorian electricity provider in proceedings in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal against the regulator of Victoria's portable long service leave scheme
- assisting in two successful prosecutions of the CFMEU and union officials in the Federal Circuit Court and Federal Court on behalf of the Australian Building and Construction Commission and Fair Work Ombudsman.