Derek is the head of our national Workplace Relations & Safety group. He practises in all areas of workplace relations and safety law, operating extensively across both the public and private sectors with experience in all Australian jurisdictions. 

Derek appears regularly before Fair Work Australia, various equal opportunity commissions and tribunals and has developed an extensive series of training workshops used by numerous national employers. 

As a former AFL field umpire, Derek retains his strong interest and involvement in AFL football.  Derek is a member of the Advisory Board of AFL Victoria.  He writes a weekly column in the Herald Sun, is heard weekly on SEN (1116AM), and was the Fox Footy Channel’s umpiring expert, appearing weekly on “White Line Fever”, until the end of 2006.

Derek's areas of expertise include:

• providing strategic industrial relations advice;
• managing all aspects of employment termination;
• conducting sensitive and complex investigations, reviews and mediations in the workplace;
• developing enforceable restraint of trade provisions and seeking injunctive relief for clients for restraint breaches; and
• delivering informative and entertaining workplace training on areas including appropriate workplace behaviour, ethical leadership, preventing workplace fraud and performance management.

Derek was admitted to practice in 1997 and joined Lander & Rogers in 1998.

Qualifications
BSc (Hons) (Neuroanatomy),  LLB (University of Queensland)

Memberships

• Australian Human Resources Institute.
• Australian Labour Law Association.
• Australian Corporate Lawyers Association.
• Workplace Relations section of the Law Institute of Victoria.
• Industrial Relations Society of Victoria.
• Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Association.

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