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Albert Khouri
Special Counsel, Sydney
With particular expertise in work health and safety and industrial relations, I advise clients about the full range of workplace legal issues. I have acted for some of Australia’s largest employers on their most complex and high‑stakes workplace matters, helping them manage risk and deliver successful commercial outcomes.

I assist clients to manage workplace safety incidents, including in the moments following a safety incident through to advising in relation to any subsequent regulatory investigations and prosecutions. I ensure my clients respond effectively in these high‑pressure situations and achieve sensible and well‑managed outcomes. I also have extensive experience advising companies and boards on their work health and safety obligations.

I regularly advise clients about industrial relations matters, ranging from assisting in managing complex industrial disputes, enterprise bargaining matters, and the interpretation of industrial instruments. 

In addition to advising about safety and industrial law issues, I have extensive experience in advising on all forms of employment law matters. I regularly assist clients to manage the most sensitive employment-related issues. I also act for clients in employment-related litigation, including the enforcement of post-employment restraints, breach of contract, unfair dismissal, adverse action and discrimination claims.

 

Career highlights

  • Being the trusted adviser to a leading tier 1 construction company in relation to fatalities and other serious work health and safety incidents at construction sites in NSW and the ACT.
  • Acting for a leading retailer in responding to multiple sites concurrently taking industrial action, and obtaining good faith bargaining orders to disband unlawful picketing at those sites.
  • Acting for a multi-national stevedore in relation to a number of significant transformation projects involving widespread workforce changes across Australia, leading to a number of industrial and safety legal issues.  
  • Regularly advising clients in a broad range of industries, including retail, stevedoring, pharmaceutical, warehousing, telecommunications, banking and finance industries, among others, in relation to enterprise bargaining and related industrial relations matters.
  • Advising a leading telecommunications provider for a number of years in relation to their industrial relations strategy, the negotiation of various enterprise agreements and associated industrial relations matters. 
  • Advising a number of clients and their boards in relation to their officer work health and safety due diligence obligations, and establishing work health and safety systems and frameworks, including conducting work health and safety audits.
  • Advising a number of large corporations in relation to employee entitlements reviews and remediation projects.

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