George Farrugia
George is a solicitor specialising in general employment law, industrial relations and safety.
George’s experience includes advising on industrial relations strategy, undertaking workplace investigations, assisting in workplace related disputes and class actions, advising on the employment aspects of corporate transactions.
George has experience working across both transactional matters and contentious disputes and has advised a range of clients, with a particular focus in the mining and resources industry.
George has practised law in HSF’s Tokyo office, working on large scale cross-border transactions for the major Japanese trading houses.
Background
George was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Western Australia and in the Federal and High Courts of Australia in 2023.
George has practised law in Australia and Japan.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- advising a mining client on a complex whistleblower and redundancy termination dispute brought in the Federal Court of Australia
- advising a large mining client on the industrial instrument coverage of its employees
- advising a large State Government-owned service provider on a complex unfair dismissal proceeding brought in the Fair Work Commission
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