Alice is an Employee Relations Consultant based in the Melbourne office since relocating from AMMA’s Adelaide office in September 2009. Alice assists AMMA’s Workplace Operations team to support AMMA members achieve their workplace relations objectives. Alice can provide both general and strategic industrial and workplace relations inquiries, and has assisted members with the drafting, negotiation and approval of enterprise agreements, review and implementation of common law contracts, and the disciplinary investigation and termination process.

Alice is admitted to practice as a legal practitioner after completing degrees in Law and International Studies in 2007. Alice has appeared in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission/Fair Work Australia and the South Australian Workers Compensation Tribunal, and had involvement in proceedings in the South Australian District and Supreme Courts, the Equal Opportunity Commission and the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Alice has completed a Project Management Course.

Whilst supporting all AMMA lobbying projects in her previous role as AMMA’s Employee Relations and Policy Officer, Alice has directly lobbied the Productivity Commission for the interests of AMMA members in relation to the 2008 inquiry into paid parental leave, and has provided both written and oral submissions to the Productivity Commission in this respect.

Alice has been significantly involved in the award modernisation process and has provided AMMA’s Award Modernisation Advisory Team with research assistance throughout the process for both the mining and hydrocarbons industries.

Based: Melbourne office

Phone: 03 9614 4777

Fax: 03 9614 3970

Email: vicamma@amma.org.au