Matthew Robinson
Partner & Accredited Specialist (Employment and Industrial Law)
Matthew has over 25 years’ experience in advising and helping clients with workplace relations and employment law. Matthew is renowned for his critical thinking, along with pragmatic advice and a direct approach to help solve the client’s specific problems. His approach involves broad thinking and determination to achieve the client goals.
Matthew has a reputation as a fierce and sought after litigator and has run cases in the High Court, Full Court, Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Courts of almost every State & Territory, the Fair Work Commission Full Bench, the Fair Work Commission and many other Courts and Tribunals around the country. He has extensive experience in a variety of interlocutory proceedings (including Restraint enforcement, Anton Piller, Mareva injunctions & preliminary discovery) which are a common theme in many employment and confidentiality cases.
Matthew has acted for a huge array of clients in a broad array of industries from publicly listed companies, multi-nationals (with either onshore & offshore parents), industrial associations to large, medium and small businesses. Matthew also discerningly takes on pro bono matters where capacity allows.
The areas of expertise include but not limited to:
- Development of workplace relations engagement model strategies aligning to business strategic objectives, including but not limited to:
o Enterprise bargaining and agreement making;
o The utilisation of Award facilitative provisions;
o Employment & executive Contract design;
o Policies development;
o Designing, building & tailoring STI, LTI and share options schemes
- Workforce change planning, management including restructures, redundancies and sale/transfer of business issues;
- Wage & entitlement compliance management, including:
o the development and design of wage compliance analysis forensic tools;
o advice on non-compliance risk profiles, rectification options, stakeholder communication planning and advice to executive team/board on risks and remediation processes;
o management of third-party intervention into the remediation process;
- Defending and advising on Unfair Dismissal, General Protections, Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Workplace Bullying, the management of ill & injured workers and workplace investigations;
- Advising on and the management of work, health and safety compliance issues, including urgent incident response management from minor incidents up to workplace fatalities.
Industry Specialisation
Matthew has worked in a huge array of industries and its unlikely that he’s not dealt with your business model or industry before. However, he has extensive experience in the following industries:
- Professional services: law firms, accounting firms, real estate, engineering & IT services;
- Pharmaceuticals, hospitals, medical practices, nursing & allied services;
- Manufacturing;
- Retail;
- Hospitality;
- Building, construction & construction materials; and
- Transport & logistics
Qualifications:
BSc LLB
Accredited Specialist (Employment & Industrial Law)
