Cherie Fung

Cherie joined Lander & Rogers' Workplace Relations & Safety team in 2022 after completing her graduate year with the firm.

She is an experienced litigator and has represented public and private sector clients in the Federal Court of Australia, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, Fair Work Commission, and state courts and tribunals.

Cherie has been recognised by Doyle's Guide as a Rising Star in Employment & WHS, and was named a finalist in the Rising Star of the Year category at the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards 2025.

Cherie is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria's Workplace Relations Executive Committee. She is passionate about mentoring and is regularly involved in mentoring programs through Monash Law, Deakin Law and with the Skyline Education Foundation Australia.

Experience

Cherie's expertise covers all areas of workplace relations and safety law, including:

• industrial disputes, including related to protected industrial action
• road transport contractual chain orders
• minimum standards orders
• enterprise bargaining advice
• unfair dismissal and general protections
• bullying, harassment, victimisation and anti-discrimination
• complex modern awards and enterprise agreement interpretation and compliance advice
• employment contract and post-employment restraint of trade
• flexible working arrangements
• general employment law advice and litigation, including performance management and redundancies.

Career highlights

Cherie's career highlights include:

• acting for a global technology company in relation to applications for minimum standards orders and the first road transport contractual chain order made by the Fair Work Commission, including advocacy before the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission
• acting for a global technology company in an urgent interlocutory matter in the Victorian Supreme Court relating to the enforceability of post-employment restraints
• acting for a Victorian university in multiple judicial review proceedings brought in the Victorian Supreme Court, including on appeal
• acting for a pharmaceutical distribution, retailing and manufacturing company during enterprise bargaining, including urgent advice and litigation in relation to pickets and industrial action
• advising Victorian public sector clients on enterprise bargaining, including in relation to bargaining and industrial action disputes
• assisting a pro bono client in relation to a coronial inquest into a death in police custody
• successfully defending multiple individual claims under the Fair Work Act and anti-discrimination legislation in the Fair Work Commission, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Magistrates' Court of Victoria, County Court of Victoria, Supreme Court of Victoria, Federal Circuit and Family Court, and Federal Court, including advocacy in conciliations and directions hearings before the courts, the Fair Work Commission, VCAT and ACAT.