Emily Gray is a Senior Associate in Cowell Clarke’s Employment & Workplace Relations team.
Emily Gray is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Employment and Workplace Relations team and provides advice on all aspects of the employment relationship.
Emily’s double degree in Law and Commerce (Accounting) uniquely supports her expertise in the area of payroll compliance. In particular, Emily is an instrumental member of the firm’s RemCheck team and has managed significant payment compliance review projects.
Emily provides advice to clients across all industries (including aged care, social and community services, healthcare, retail and manufacturing) in relation to their obligations under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and applicable industrial instruments in order to identify non-compliance and calculate potential underpayments of wages. As part of this work, Emily regularly represents clients in matters involving the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Emily also works on a broad range of employment matters, and has particular interests in employment contracts, complex remuneration and incentive arrangements, workplace policies, terminations, post-employment restraints, consultancy agreements and enterprise agreement bargaining. She also regularly undertakes employment due diligence in corporate transactions.
Expertise:
Employee/contractor agreements and entitlements
Interpretation of industrial instruments and State/Federal legislation
Payroll compliance
Employment disputes including underpayment, unfair dismissal, general protections, bullying, breach of contract and restraint of trade claims
Restructures and redundancies
Disciplinary and dismissal procedures
Matters involving the Fair Work Ombudsman
Employment due diligence and issues arising from business transactions
