Our People | Partners | Mark Howard
Melbourne
Mark Howard | Partner
T: +61 3 9205 2021
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Current Practice
Mark has been practising in workplace relations for over 16 years. Mark advises on:
- industrial advocacy in unfair dismissal/reinstatement matters
- advising on termination of employment
- advocacy in human rights, equal opportunity and discrimination matters
- injunctions
- executive contracts and all forms of employment contracts
- implementation of enterprise bargaining at the workplace level
- negotiation, preparation and certification/registration of workplace agreements
- occupational health and safety
- protection of confidential information and restraint of trade
- interpretation of awards
- industrial disputation
- disciplinary procedures and internal reviews
- large scale industrial relations due diligence and transmission of business
- client company restructuring including advice in relation to outsourcing, organisational change and redundancy
- policies and procedures manuals
- compliance manuals
- developing workplace education programs
Client Focus
Mark advises clients mainly in the resources, retail, information technology, finance, manufacturing, hospitality, shipping, insurance, and government sectors.
In addition, Mark speaks regularly at seminars, provides extensive in-house training and produces corporate compliance manuals. Mark is a member of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria and has completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Labour Law.