Fiorella Chiavetta

Expertise

Fiorella is a Senior Associate in the Workplace Relations and Safety team with extensive experience across all aspects of employment law, industrial relations and work health and safety.

Fiorella provides strategic, commercial advice to blue-chip companies, growing businesses, senior executives, government agencies, not for profit organisations and individuals across a range of areas. 

Fiorella brings a unique and valuable perspective to her practice, drawing on legal experience gained both in Australia and overseas. This blend of local expertise and international insight enables her to approach matters with a truly global outlook. Her nuanced understanding of cross-border legal and commercial issues has made her a trusted adviser for international companies looking to establish or expand their operations in Australia as well as for Australian businesses seeking to recruit overseas or interstate talent.

Fiorella specialises in:

• providing strategic and commercial advice in relation to terms and conditions of employment, confidentiality and restraints of trade and engagement and the establishment of workplace policies and procedures
• advising businesses in the implementation of performance management plan, redundancies and managing ill and injured employees
• advising and representing businesses in the defence of employment-related claims, including general protections, unfair dismissal and discrimination proceedings
• advising on all stages of enterprise agreement making, including providing of strategic industrial relations and enterprise bargaining advice across a range of industries and reviewing enterprise agreements for compliance with the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)
• providing strategic advice to businesses on restructuring and transfer of business,
• drafting and enforcing post-employment restraints
• reviewing modern award coverage, performing classification assessments and providing strategic advice in relation to compliance and underpayments
• advising international businesses on employer obligations and compliance with the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and other Australians laws
• managing and conducting workplace investigations into alleged inappropriate employee behavior and providing advice on appropriate disciplinary action.

Experience

Examples of Fiorella’s experience include:

• advising and acting in numerous unfair dismissal and general protections claims, including in the Fair Work Commission and Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
• defending restraint enforcement proceedings in the County Court of Victoria, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Supreme Court of Queensland
• defending claims of breach of contract, breach of directors’ duties and misuse of confidential information in the Supreme Court of Victoria
• managing and conducting several workplace investigations into alleged inappropriate employee behavior including bullying, bias, fraud, corruption and breaches of key legislative frameworks.