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.


Nadia Stojanova, Barrister, Svenson Barristers
Nadia Stojanova's practice at the Victorian Bar specialises in employment law, industrial relations and regulatory law. Nadia is a recommended junior counsel by Doyles Guide. Nadia runs a busy practice where she is regularly briefed for litigation, advice, drafting and complex workplace matters (such as high-risk investigations and media-sensitive disputes). Nadia has a special interest in regulatory schemes specific to employment law around Australia (such as the wage theft and labour hire licensing schemes) as well as cases involving the interpretation of enterprise agreements and modern awards. Nadia has managed a wide range of employment matters involving a broad suite of industrial issues such as breaches of employment contracts/modern awards/enterprise agreements/statutes, industrial negotiations, sham contracting, Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) civil remedy provision contraventions, underpayment claims, workplace bullying, discrimination, general protections, unfair dismissal, annualised salary concerns, bonus scheme disputes and employee record exemption issues under privacy legislation. Nadia is an Honorary (Senior Fellow) in Law and Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and an Accredited Advocacy Instructor with The Australian Advocacy Institute.

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.


Nadia Stojanova, Barrister, Svenson Barristers
Nadia Stojanova's practice at the Victorian Bar specialises in employment law, industrial relations and regulatory law. Nadia is a recommended junior counsel by Doyles Guide. Nadia runs a busy practice where she is regularly briefed for litigation, advice, drafting and complex workplace matters (such as high-risk investigations and media-sensitive disputes). Nadia has a special interest in regulatory schemes specific to employment law around Australia (such as the wage theft and labour hire licensing schemes) as well as cases involving the interpretation of enterprise agreements and modern awards. Nadia has managed a wide range of employment matters involving a broad suite of industrial issues such as breaches of employment contracts/modern awards/enterprise agreements/statutes, industrial negotiations, sham contracting, Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) civil remedy provision contraventions, underpayment claims, workplace bullying, discrimination, general protections, unfair dismissal, annualised salary concerns, bonus scheme disputes and employee record exemption issues under privacy legislation. Nadia is an Honorary (Senior Fellow) in Law and Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and an Accredited Advocacy Instructor with The Australian Advocacy Institute.