Sean Edwards

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About Sean Edwards

Sean is an authentic and affiliative leader that inspires innovative thinking, an entrepreneurial spirit, and organisational bonding that models' teams towards success and drives company unity.Sean is an experienced (and commercially minded) leader and employment / industrial relations lawyer with a demonstrated ability in delivering innovative and complex people and employment / industrial relations law strategies across the Australian and New Zealand jurisdictions. Sean has extensive experience in mitigating the financial and legal risks across various global matrix organisations by recalibrating the Human Resources and Industrial Relations operating models and governance and compliance systems.Sean is well-versed in the areas of organisational design, organisational performance, transformation and change management; effecting change in organisational thinking and behaviours, business practices and systems. Sean has a strong ability to imbed sound employee relations and industrial relations principles across complex business structures whilst balancing commercial / financial risk and opportunities against existing or emerging market conditions and legal frameworks; applying recommendations or decision making where there may be limited precedent.Sean has successfully advised on and litigated the following areas of law- Underpayments, Unfair Dismissals, General Protections, Human Rights (and equal opportunity), Discrimination, Redundancy, Breach of Contract, Restraint of Trade, Award / Enterprise Agreement Disputes, Approval of Enterprise Agreements, Award Coverage, Right of Entry, Union Rules and coverage, Industrial Disputation, Portable Long Service Leave, Superannuation, Transfer of Business and numerous other industrial relations and employment law matters.