Tony is the senior member of Henry Davis York's Workplace Relations and Safety Group and has over 20 years' experience in all areas of workplace relations and safety law. A significant part of his practice is dedicated to his role as a longstanding trusted adviser to New South Wales Government clients.
Tony delivers strategic advice on significant employment matters from implementing effective remuneration strategies, performance management of senior employees and advising on major restructuring of organisations, to the management of individual employee and industrial disputes. He has also acted in several matters representing the interests of senior executives through various aspects from contract negotiation through to mediation and dispute resolution.
Tony's work regularly includes negotiating enterprise agreements and awards, drafting employment contracts and policies, dispute resolution, dealing with discrimination complaints, managing performance and conduct reviews and terminations and dismissal disputes, as well as managing safety risks and defending occupational health and safety (OH&S) prosecutions.
Tony has been involved in implementing the industrial relations strategy as part of one of Australia's largest de-mergers and successfully managing the extraction of key employees avoiding restraint obligation disputes. His recent work also includes advising on major restructures, obtaining orders from FWA for right of entry breaches, managing terminations while neutralising industrial disruption, successfully defending major OH&S prosecutions and creating a compilation of operative provisions from over 50 awards and enterprise agreements into a single enterprise agreement. Tony regularly presents seminars to clients' human resources and employee relations personnel to ensure relevant and timely information and skill transfer relating to current employment law and OH&S issues.
Tony is named a leading lawyer in employment law in PLC's Which Lawyer? 2011, Chambers Asia Pacific 2012 where he is particularly highly regarded for public sector matters. Observers praise his "high-quality legal advice" in Chambers Global 2011.