Anthony has specialised in industrial and employment law for more than 15 years. He has extensive experience advising on the full range of industrial relations issues which confront major Australian enterprises. These include enterprise bargaining, industrial disputation and workplace change processes.

Anthony’s practice encompasses front end advisory work and strategic planning, the management of industrial disputation and change processes through to representing clients in litigation in all of the courts and various tribunals which impact the employment relationship.

Anthony has acted across many industries for major clients.  His practice has a strong focus on mining and resources but also spans across numerous other industries including the manufacturing, transport, electricity, horticulture and facilities management sectors. Some of his major projects and clients are:

• Numerous companies within the Rio Tinto Group across many parts of their Australian operations. Anthony has advised on many disputes including numerous ones involving industrial action and significant workplace reform. Some important cases have arisen from his work with this client, dealing with matters such as labour hire contracting and reasonable additional hours issues.
• Anthony has advised in some depth on the implementation of merit-based systems in large selection for retrenchment exercises in the mining and other sectors.
• Anthony has acted for the NSW Minerals Council and its Coal Mining Members for many years. Interesting matters he has acted on include proceedings in the High Court concerning constitutional challenges to industrial relations laws; the Full Federal Court to challenge, on constitutional grounds, actions of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission and fundamental restructuring and modernisation of the National Coal Industry Award in 1998-2001. He has also advised these clients on significant changes to superannuation and long service leave schemes in the coal mining industry.
• Anthony represented the National Coal Mining Industry in the Reasonable Hours Test Case, the most significant review of working hours in Australia for many decades. Some years later he represented the employer in the first case brought under those provisions.
• Anthony has acted for the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the Office of the Workplace Ombudsman in many cases where breaches of workplace laws are prosecuted. This work provides a valuable perspective from which to advise commercial clients on all manner of compliance issues.
• Anthony’s work in the electricity sector has involved significant companies, including Energy Australia, NRG Energy and Babcock & Brown Power.
• Major workplace change and reform has been undertaken by many of Anthony’s clients including, for example, Amcor and Pacific National. He has worked closely with management teams in these and other companies to achieve real change and competitive advantage.
  

Anthony has a Bachelor of Laws from The Queensland University of Technology.