Neil has specialised in Workplace Relations & Safety since 1986. His focus is on helping employers achieve their goals against a backdrop of ever-changing and increasingly complex workplace laws. Neil's expertise covers a range of industries including retail, government, building and construction, engineering, transport, manufacturing, health, financial services and IT and communications.

Neil Napper's experience

  • Advising multinational engineering and technology company on implications for its business of Closing Loopholes legislation imposing new rules on minimum pay and benefits for labour hire workers.

  • Advising multinational engineering and technology company involved in large infrastructure project in NSW on calculating its obligations to pay long service leave levy.

  • Advised a multi-national high-end retail client about managing an employee on long-term workers’ compensation with complex physical and psychosocial injury which changed significantly over the period of absence, resulting in the successful exit of the employee from the business without legal claims being made.

    • Australia
  • Advised a healthcare client regarding the conduct of a show cause and termination process for an employee following investigations into allegations she had been consuming alcohol and intoxicated at work while providing medical care to children, conducted while the employee was absent on sick leave for physical injuries, including hospitalisation.

  • Acting for national consultancy business providing strategic management consulting services to Australian Department of Defence on complex procurement and other contracts.

  • Representing and advising on industrial relations matters including representing them in an industrial dispute, union consultation and settlement negotiations at their maintenance operations at Garden Island, Sydney, Australia.

Credentials

  • 2023
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 1985
    University of Sydney - Law (Bachelor)
  • 1983
    University of Sydney - Economics (Bachelor)
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