Nick Le Mare Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Australia

Partner in the Workplace Relations Group and leader of Corrs' Queensland workplace relations practice, with particular expertise in industrial strategy and execution and conduct of workplace related litigation.

Brisbane, Australia

A member of the Exective Leadership Team, accountable for the legal, governance, compliance, risk, internal audit and insurance functions at Queensland Rail.Implementing a range of reforms to help prepare Queensland Rail for contestability, including the implementation of 2 separate redundancy and restructure programs across all levels of the organisation. Implementing Queensland Rail's conversion from Government Owned Corporation to a Statutory Authority.

Brisbane, Australia

Implementing industrial aspects of the “Game Change Program”, a program of rapid and extensive change affecting all parts of the Virgin Australia business – structure, operations, product, customer service and delivery. This included advice about the integration of various businesses within the Virgin Australia Group, conduct of consultation with relevant employees and unions about those changes and implementing large scale transfers of employment, from outside and within the Virgin Australia GroupImplementing Virgin Australia’s workplace relations strategy – a strategy aimed at providing a positive workplace relations environment, allowing a stable platform from which to maintain an engaged, professional and flexible workforce. Negotiating and implementing a range of collective agreements covering pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground crew, on suitable term, without adverse media attention or industrial unrest.Liaison with Government officials, Departments and Tribunals about various industrial and employment matters.Advocacy for the Virgin Australia Group in various Tribunals and Commissions.

Brisbane, Australia

Negotiating and drafting a wide range of contracts for a new long haul international airline. Drafting and negotiating contracts for the sale and purchase of various businesses.Review of Virgin Australia’s safety reporting system. In particular, consideration of how that could better protect the Virgin Australia Group and its officers from prosecution without compromising safety outcomes.Drafting submissions to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and other regulatory bodies about potential prosecutions.Advocacy for the Virgin Australia Group in various Tribunals and Commissions.

Brisbane, Australia

Conduct of litigation in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal about the closure of the Grasstree mine for alleged breach of the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act.Providing advice in respect of a fatality at the Dawson mine.Providing advice in respect of serious safety incidents at the Cannington mine and at the Broadmeadows mine and acting for the relevant employer and Mine Manager in the first prosecution under the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act.Conduct of litigation in industrial Tribunals and in the Federal Court and Supreme Court in respect of various campaigns of industrial action by the CFMEU, AMWU and CEPU.Providing strategic industrial advice about the start-­‐up of the Grasstree underground coal mine.Providing strategic industrial advice about the Moranbah North Coal Mine, the Cannington Mine and the Hay Point and Barney Point Coal terminals.Providing strategic advice about significant construction and expansion projects at the Central Colliery, the Dawson Mine and the Yabulu refinery.Negotiating and drafting employment and safety provisions for the sale of various businesses.Providing day-­‐to-­‐day advice about various industrial, employment, safety and discrimination matters.Conducting training about various industrial, employment, safety and discrimination matters.

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.) (Hons), Law

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Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History And Philosophy