Experience
Rebecca is based in ABLA's Melbourne office.
She has a passion for advocacy and crafting practical and effective solutions tailored to her clients’ needs and advises employers on workplace relations and employment related issues including:
Updating clients on legislative reforms and explaining how such reforms may impact their business
Contracts of employment
Disciplinary matters, including termination
Discrimination and sexual harassment
Enterprise bargaining
Industrial instrument interpretation
Managing ill or injured employees
Modern award interpretation and compliance
Organisational policies
Redundancies
Underpayment and compliance audits
Rebecca regularly assists with disputes in the Fair Work Commission in matters related to unfair dismissal and general protections disputes, and has also appeared on behalf of her clients in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
She was instrumental in the production of ABLA's Workplace Sexual Harassment Positive Duty How-to-Guide. The popular toolkit assists businesses on their way to compliance with the new positive duty to eliminate sexual harassment, sex discrimination, sex-based harassment, hostile workplace environments and victimisation in the workplace. Rebecca has also been involved in sexual harassment disputes in the Australian Human Rights Commission and VCAT.
She is a member of the LIV Workplace Relations Executive Committee and holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of International Relations from La Trobe University. She is admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Rebecca is fluent in Greek.