Presenters

Amanda Junkeer, Partner, Gadens
Amanda specialises in industrial and employee relations with over 20 years’ experience. Amanda is a Partner in the Workplace Advisory and Disputes team at Gadens and based in the Melbourn office. Prior to joining Gadens, Amanda worked in private practice at a top tier national firm in the Workplace Relations and Safety team and a boutique law firm where she specialised in Workplace Relations. Her experience includes senior in-house employment counsel roles in an ASX listed top 100 company with over 25,000 employees and national healthcare essential service provider with over 3,500 employees. Acting for employers including corporations and not for profit organisations, her key practice areas range from enterprise bargaining strategy, industrial disputation, payroll compliance and remediation, complex award and enterprise agreement matters, managing disciplinary and termination processes, wage audits, and employment litigation. Amanda’s sector specialisation includes independent education, higher education, not for profit and manufacturing. Significant matters include acting in a successful litigation on behalf of a large media company in relation to breach of employee privacy in the context of enterprise bargaining, leading a Federal Court appeal of an adverse action matter involving union activity during an industrial dispute, instructing and advising on unfair dismissal matters in the Fair Work Commission including a Full Bench decision about dishonesty in the use of medical certificates. Amanda also advises and acts on behalf of clients in respect of employment contract drafting and disputation, representing clients with the workplace relations regulator and in anti-discrimination claims.


Renato Marasco, Head of Industrial Relations, The BelRose Group
Renato is a senior Employee Relations and Human Resources professional with extensive experience in multiple industries including manufacturing, hospitality, retail, distribution and telecommunications. He has over 15 years’ experience in employee relations and employment law having worked in both highly unionised and non unionised working environments. He has previously held senior industrial relations roles at Woolworths, Boeing and NBN. His expertise in employee relations includes strategic enterprise bargaining, managing industrial disputes, Award and enterprise agreement interpretation and compliance, investigating employee claims and whistle-blower complaints, defending adverse action, unfair dismissal, discrimination and bullying claims, appearing at the Fair Work Commission and other courts and tribunals.