Brett Thompson

Brett Thompson

Director

Brett Thompson

Director

Brett Thompson is a Director in our Source Workplace Legal team. He has been advising on employment, workplace relations, and work health and safety law since 2007.

Brett’s clients rely on him for focused commercial and risk-based advice on all aspects of the employment relationship, including engagement, compliance, managing underperformance, business restructuring, termination of employment, and resolving disputes. He has also provided support and advice to clients engaged in enterprise bargaining (including responding to industrial action) and by conducting workplace investigations.

Brett has advised clients in a range of industries including in health, education, the state and commonwealth public sectors, construction, mining, resources, manufacturing, IT, and transport. He is versed in all matter sizes from smaller to large scale workplace policies and contracts to industrial relations and safety strategy and risk management on major projects, significant commercial transactions and due diligence, and industrial relations and enterprise bargaining strategy.

Prior to joining Source, Brett was a Special Counsel at Clayton Utz with a varied workplace and industrial relations and work health and safety practice. Brett previously worked as a Principal Government Lawyer in the APS advising the Commonwealth Government on the Fair Work Act, Fair Work Registered Organisations Act, and Commonwealth workplace relations legislation and policy.

 

Expertise

Brett has experience advising on all aspects of workplace relations, employment and safety law, with a focus on:

  • Executive employment
  • Award and enterprise agreement compliance
  • Remediating underpayments
  • Enterprise bargaining, right of entry, and industrial action
  • Employment and safety due diligence
  • Workplace restructures and redundancies
  • Workplace investigations
  • Performance management, disciplinary issues and terminations
  • Fair Work claims and dispute resolution

 

Qualifications

  • Admitted to practice in Australian Capital Territory (2009)
  • Admitted to practice in High Court of Australia (2009)
  • Current Unrestricted Practicing Certificate
  • Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, 2009 – Australian National University
  • Bachelor of Laws, 2005 – University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Arts Honours First Class, 2003 – University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Arts, 2002 – University of Newcastle

 

Get to know Brett

Brett finds strength and inspiration from his family and friends. On the weekend, if he is not playing guitar, he’ll be thinking of new ways to troll his kids.

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