As Head of Workplace Relations Consulting Services, Michael Mead leads Ai Group’s national team of more than 30 workplace relations lawyers and specialist practitioners which delivers exceptional and practical workplace relations services to members. Michael is also a legal practitioner director of Ai Group’s national law firm, Ai Group Workplace Lawyers. Prior to assuming national responsibility for consulting services Michael was Ai Group’s National Advocate working alongside Stephen Smith and representing members’ interests in major Test Cases before the Fair Work Commission, government inquiries and significant appeals and industrial disputes.
Recent publicity directed at employers who access the provisions of the Fair Work Act to terminate expired enterprise agreements has focused on exaggerated and one-sided union claims about a “broken” system. It overlooks the important balance this mechanism creates within…
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