Olga Klimczak
Olga is an experienced employment lawyer with a focus on advisory and disputes work.
Olga has over 18 years’ experience advising clients across a wide range of industries, including resources (oil and gas, mining, energy), construction and infrastructure, manufacturing and maritime. She specialises in employment, industrial relations, diversity, and workplace health and safety.
Her expertise spans strategic advisory work, workforce planning, and representation in employment related disputes, as well as assisting clients through regulatory investigations and prosecutions. Known for her practical, solutions focused approach, Olga helps organisations navigate workplace and employee relations challenges to achieve strong outcomes in engagement, productivity and industrial strategy.
She also has deep experience conducting and advising on complex workplace investigations involving business conduct issues such as sexual harassment, bullying, conflicts of interest, discrimination and safety breaches.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- a range of day to day issues, ranging from recruitment, through employment and to termination of employment. This has included drafting, enforcing and managing post-employment restraints, and assisting with executive contracts and remuneration issues
- strategic issues, including managing industrial relations issues, change management and complex workplace issues such as workplace investigations, performance and discipline
- document management, including drafting and reviewing employment contracts and policies and procedures
- compliance issues, including in relation to employment, equal opportunity and diversity, and occupational health and safety, bullying, injury management and rehabilitation, and regulatory investigations and prosecutions
Olga has also worked on a number of high profile disputes in industrial relations and employment:
- assisted a contractor in the energy sector to successfully enforce a restraint of trade
- advised and represented clients in the mining sector in relation to safety prosecutions
- assisted multiple clients in relation to employment claims, including unfair dismissals and general protections claims
- assisted a client in the mining sector in relation to change management advice when it was considering a number of options to improve efficiency and productivity
Background
Olga holds a Bachelor of Laws & Arts (Honours) from the University of Western Australia, and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne.
Olga worked as an Associate to the Honourable Justice McLure of the Western Australian Court of Appeal in 2006.
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