John Monroe is a special counsel in the firm's Labour, Employment, and Workplace
Safety practice. He acts in employment, industrial, and discrimination matters
for a broad cross-section of employers, with particular experience in the
healthcare, sporting, fitness, education, research, government, and manufacturing
sectors.
With a passion for industrial disputes, John regularly works with employers to
manage industrial matters such enterprise bargaining, industrial action, collective
entitlements claims, implementing workplace change and enterprise agreement
disputes.
John also represents clients in a wide range of litigation, including the defense of
general protections, unfair dismissal, unpaid entitlements, discrimination and
anti-bullying claims, and in responding to investigations by regulators such as the
Fair Work Ombudsman.
He is able to provide practical and timely advice regarding performance management,
ill and injured workers and non-competition. John is also skilled at dealing with
complex questions of award coverage, having acted for several representative
organisations in the four yearly review of modern award.
