Craig Boyle
Partner, Perth
My practice covers a broad range of industrial relations and labour regulation matters, with a focus on individual employment relationships and contracts, workplace policies and procedures, equal opportunity, discrimination and harassment, and workplace safety and training.

I have provided workplace relations and employment law advice to clients across diverse industries including education, mining and resources, construction and engineering, energy and utilities, transport and logistics, local government, healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, not-for-profit and community services, property development, and technology.

Career highlights

  • Helped several national employers in the resources sector secure favourable enterprise agreements despite considerable industrial opposition, developing tailored industrial strategies, dealing with employees' representatives, and avoiding industrial action and litigation
  • Provides ongoing employment law advice to leading Western Australian independent schools on a range of matters including terminations, adverse action claims, superannuation, and general employment matters
  • Advised an EPCM contractor on managing its industrial risks with respect to a $1.6 billion mine expansion project
  • Advised an engineering company on all aspects of fulfilling its WHS duties regarding its construction of a lithium hydroxide processing plant and mine expansion
  • Acted for a grain handling cooperative regarding a high profile dispute with former senior executives about breaches of post-employment restraints
  • Represented a dredging company in a long-standing dispute regarding the interpretation of an enterprise agreement applying to the construction of an oil and gas facility, which was resolved favourably for the company without any time lost to industrial action
  • Successfully represented a gold mining company as counsel in an unfair dismissal trial brought by a trade union on behalf of the company's former employee
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