Poo­ja Kapur

Exper­tise:

• Dis­crim­i­na­tion
• Employ­ment
• Work­place Health and Safety
• Work­place Relations

Sec­tors

• Finan­cial Services
• Hotels & Hospitality
• Man­u­fac­tur­ing & Industrials
• Pri­vate Clients & Fam­i­ly Businesses
• Retail & Wholesale
• Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al & Non-professional

Expe­ri­ence

I have act­ed on a range of per­son­al and com­mer­cial mat­ters. The work­place rela­tions mat­ters on which I have act­ed include:

• advis­ing on unfair dis­missal and gen­er­al pro­tec­tion claims for both employ­ers and exec­u­tive employees
• advis­ing com­pa­nies in Work Health and Safe­ty litigation
• advis­ing com­pa­nies on anti-dis­crim­i­na­tion and sex­u­al harass­ment issues
• review­ing and draft­ing employ­ment con­tracts for var­i­ous clients
• review­ing and draft­ing inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor agree­ments for var­i­ous clients
• review­ing and draft­ing deeds of set­tle­ment and release
• advis­ing organ­i­sa­tions and exec­u­tive employ­ees on post-employ­ment rights and obligations
• advis­ing organ­i­sa­tions on the prop­er per­for­mance man­age­ment of employees
• advis­ing organ­i­sa­tions on the man­age­ment of injured employees
• review­ing and analysing mod­ern awards for var­i­ous positions
• advis­ing organ­i­sa­tions on law­ful dis­missal pro­ce­dures in cir­cum­stances of seri­ous mis­con­duct, redun­dan­cies and for employ­ees who have been unable to ful­fil the inher­ent require­ments of their role
• rep­re­sent­ing var­i­ous clients in mediations
• gen­er­al­ly pro­vid­ing strate­gic work­place rela­tions advice for var­i­ous clients.

Roles, mem­ber­ship, and education:

• Bach­e­lor of Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence (Uni­ver­si­ty of South Aus­tralia, 2014)
• Bach­e­lor of Laws (Uni­ver­si­ty of South Aus­tralia, 2017)
• Grad­u­ate Diplo­ma of Legal Prac­tice (The Aus­tralian Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty, 2018)
• Admis­sion to the Supreme Court of NSW and to the High Court of Aus­tralia, 2018
• Mas­ters of Labour Law and Rela­tions (Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney, com­menced 2022)
• Mem­ber of the Law Soci­ety of NSW