JustineGiuliani
Partner
International Employment Law
jgiuliani@seyfarth.com
Justine partners with leading employers to address and solve critical workforce legal challenges and identify opportunities for success.
More About Justine
Practical, sharp, and strategic, Justine manages complex and significant employment and labour law matters. She helps clients plan for change and respond to Australia's evolving employment laws about matters that have the attention of business leaders.
Justine has helped many leading local and multinational employers across a range of industries with contentious and high-profile matters, with a particular focus on executive employment matters, restraints of trade, enterprise bargaining, complex restructures, workforce planning, transfers of business, and litigation in federal and state courts and tribunals. These industries include banking, technology, logistics, telecommunications, and hospitality.
An experienced litigator in courts and tribunals, Justine brings a practical and strategic approach to navigating contested matters. She works closely with human resources and in-house legal professionals to identify options, and decide on and execute a litigation strategy that works for their business.
Clients value Justine’s hands-on approach to their businesses, which she considers essential for achieving positive and useful outcomes. In terms of her exceptional legal and business acumen, a client recently noted in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide that Justine brings “a range of options to the table on each matter which exhibit a deep knowledge of business, not just legal, impacts” (Legalese Ltd.) (2022).
Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.
Justine has helped many leading local and multinational employers across a range of industries with contentious and high-profile matters, with a particular focus on executive employment matters, restraints of trade, enterprise bargaining, complex restructures, workforce planning, transfers of business, and litigation in federal and state courts and tribunals. These industries include banking, technology, logistics, telecommunications, and hospitality.
An experienced litigator in courts and tribunals, Justine brings a practical and strategic approach to navigating contested matters. She works closely with human resources and in-house legal professionals to identify options, and decide on and execute a litigation strategy that works for their business.
Clients value Justine’s hands-on approach to their businesses, which she considers essential for achieving positive and useful outcomes. In terms of her exceptional legal and business acumen, a client recently noted in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide that Justine brings “a range of options to the table on each matter which exhibit a deep knowledge of business, not just legal, impacts” (Legalese Ltd.) (2022).
Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.
- LLB, Monash University
First Class Honours
- BA, Monash University
- An Australian legal practitioner admitted in Victoria
Related Services
Related Regions
Blogs
- Advising a leading telecommunications provider in connection with the employment aspects of a wholesale re-organisation of its business to better realise the value of its infrastructure assets, create new opportunities to monetise its assets, and create additional value for shareholders.
- Advising a major Australian bank in relation to the successful termination of an enterprise award and expired collective agreement. This involved two applications to the Fair Work Commission on behalf of the client to terminate its legacy enterprise award and collective agreement.
- Advising a leading Australian hospitality group in relation to its labour relations strategy and the negotiation of a greenfields agreement to cover a new site.
- Acting for a major hospitality group in relation to a successful application to the Federal Court of Australia for a declaration that the employment by one entity of another entity’s employees within the same hospitality group did not result in a “transfer of business” within the meaning of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).
- Acting for a marketing services company to successfully defend a redundancy claim in the Federal Court of Australia. This matter was significant because it clarifies the extent to which an employer may vary an employee’s duties and responsibilities within the scope of their contract of employment, such that their position is not redundant.
- Completing a secondment to the Workplace Relations and Human Resources Legal groups of an ASX20 company, which involved advising on bargaining for an enterprise agreement that simplified a number of collective agreements covering approximately 23,000 employees.
Related News & Insights
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Blog Post
Mar 4, 2024
The next ten years: Seyfarth’s partners discuss the future of employment and workplace safety law in Australia
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Blog Post
Feb 28, 2024
A decade in Australia: Seyfarth’s partners reflect on changes in employment and workplace safety law
-
Recognition
01/17/2024
Seyfarth Ranked Highly in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
-
Legal Update
Mar 8, 2023
International Women's Day - Insights for leading employers on how they can #EmbraceEquity in the workplace
- Recognised in the IFLR’s 2022 Rising Stars Asia-Pacific Award
- Recognised as a Rising Star by Doyle’s Guide (2020)
- Recognised as a Recommended Employment and Industrial Relations Lawyer by Doyle’s Guide (2023-2024)
- Recognised by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a Rising Star for Labour and Employment (2021-2024)
- Recognised in Best Lawyers Australia for Labour & Employment Law (2021-2025)
- Law Institute of Victoria
- Co-Author, “The next ten years: Seyfarth’s partners discuss the future of employment and workplace safety law in Australia,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 5, 2024)
- Co-Author, “A decade in Australia: Seyfarth’s partners reflect on changes in employment and workplace safety law,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 29, 2024)
- Co-Author, "International Women's Day - Insights for leading employers on how they can #EmbraceEquity in the workplace," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 8, 2023)
- Salary sacrifice, taxation and the contract of employment (March 2012) – Lexis Nexus Employment Law Bulletin
- Co-Author, “Insights for leading employers on how they can #EmbraceEquity in the workplace,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 7, 2023)
- Co-Author, “Changing an employee’s duties: Is that a redundancy?,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 8, 2018)
- Co-Author, “You get to write the script for this story…,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 11, 2016)
- Co-Author, “The difference between winning and losing restraint litigation is often good housekeeping,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 19, 2015)
- Co-Author, “Drafting and litigating post-employment restraints – Tailoring your restraint to ensure the right fit,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 31, 2014)
Justine partners with leading employers to address and solve critical workforce legal challenges and identify opportunities for success.
More About Justine
Practical, sharp, and strategic, Justine manages complex and significant employment and labour law matters. She helps clients plan for change and respond to Australia's evolving employment laws about matters that have the attention of business leaders.
Justine has helped many leading local and multinational employers across a range of industries with contentious and high-profile matters, with a particular focus on executive employment matters, restraints of trade, enterprise bargaining, complex restructures, workforce planning, transfers of business, and litigation in federal and state courts and tribunals. These industries include banking, technology, logistics, telecommunications, and hospitality.
An experienced litigator in courts and tribunals, Justine brings a practical and strategic approach to navigating contested matters. She works closely with human resources and in-house legal professionals to identify options, and decide on and execute a litigation strategy that works for their business.
Clients value Justine’s hands-on approach to their businesses, which she considers essential for achieving positive and useful outcomes. In terms of her exceptional legal and business acumen, a client recently noted in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide that Justine brings “a range of options to the table on each matter which exhibit a deep knowledge of business, not just legal, impacts” (Legalese Ltd.) (2022).
Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.
Justine has helped many leading local and multinational employers across a range of industries with contentious and high-profile matters, with a particular focus on executive employment matters, restraints of trade, enterprise bargaining, complex restructures, workforce planning, transfers of business, and litigation in federal and state courts and tribunals. These industries include banking, technology, logistics, telecommunications, and hospitality.
An experienced litigator in courts and tribunals, Justine brings a practical and strategic approach to navigating contested matters. She works closely with human resources and in-house legal professionals to identify options, and decide on and execute a litigation strategy that works for their business.
Clients value Justine’s hands-on approach to their businesses, which she considers essential for achieving positive and useful outcomes. In terms of her exceptional legal and business acumen, a client recently noted in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide that Justine brings “a range of options to the table on each matter which exhibit a deep knowledge of business, not just legal, impacts” (Legalese Ltd.) (2022).
Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.
- LLB, Monash University
First Class Honours
- BA, Monash University
- An Australian legal practitioner admitted in Victoria
Related Services
Related Regions
Blogs
- Advising a leading telecommunications provider in connection with the employment aspects of a wholesale re-organisation of its business to better realise the value of its infrastructure assets, create new opportunities to monetise its assets, and create additional value for shareholders.
- Advising a major Australian bank in relation to the successful termination of an enterprise award and expired collective agreement. This involved two applications to the Fair Work Commission on behalf of the client to terminate its legacy enterprise award and collective agreement.
- Advising a leading Australian hospitality group in relation to its labour relations strategy and the negotiation of a greenfields agreement to cover a new site.
- Acting for a major hospitality group in relation to a successful application to the Federal Court of Australia for a declaration that the employment by one entity of another entity’s employees within the same hospitality group did not result in a “transfer of business” within the meaning of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).
- Acting for a marketing services company to successfully defend a redundancy claim in the Federal Court of Australia. This matter was significant because it clarifies the extent to which an employer may vary an employee’s duties and responsibilities within the scope of their contract of employment, such that their position is not redundant.
- Completing a secondment to the Workplace Relations and Human Resources Legal groups of an ASX20 company, which involved advising on bargaining for an enterprise agreement that simplified a number of collective agreements covering approximately 23,000 employees.
Related News & Insights
-
Blog Post
Mar 4, 2024
The next ten years: Seyfarth’s partners discuss the future of employment and workplace safety law in Australia
-
Blog Post
Feb 28, 2024
A decade in Australia: Seyfarth’s partners reflect on changes in employment and workplace safety law
-
Recognition
01/17/2024
Seyfarth Ranked Highly in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
-
Legal Update
Mar 8, 2023
International Women's Day - Insights for leading employers on how they can #EmbraceEquity in the workplace
- Recognised in the IFLR’s 2022 Rising Stars Asia-Pacific Award
- Recognised as a Rising Star by Doyle’s Guide (2020)
- Recognised as a Recommended Employment and Industrial Relations Lawyer by Doyle’s Guide (2023-2024)
- Recognised by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a Rising Star for Labour and Employment (2021-2024)
- Recognised in Best Lawyers Australia for Labour & Employment Law (2021-2025)
- Law Institute of Victoria
- Co-Author, “The next ten years: Seyfarth’s partners discuss the future of employment and workplace safety law in Australia,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 5, 2024)
- Co-Author, “A decade in Australia: Seyfarth’s partners reflect on changes in employment and workplace safety law,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 29, 2024)
- Co-Author, "International Women's Day - Insights for leading employers on how they can #EmbraceEquity in the workplace," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 8, 2023)
- Salary sacrifice, taxation and the contract of employment (March 2012) – Lexis Nexus Employment Law Bulletin
- Co-Author, “Insights for leading employers on how they can #EmbraceEquity in the workplace,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 7, 2023)
- Co-Author, “Changing an employee’s duties: Is that a redundancy?,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 8, 2018)
- Co-Author, “You get to write the script for this story…,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 11, 2016)
- Co-Author, “The difference between winning and losing restraint litigation is often good housekeeping,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 19, 2015)
- Co-Author, “Drafting and litigating post-employment restraints – Tailoring your restraint to ensure the right fit,” Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 31, 2014)