Costa Brehas Senior Associate, Melbourne T +61 3 8602 9228 E Costa Brehas Area of Practice: Employment Industrial Relations Occupational Health and Safety Equal Opportunity and Discrimination Experience:   Costa joined Hunt & Hunt's Employment and Workplace Relations Group in 2007. Costa has a wealth of employment and workplace relations expertise in a range of areas including the following: representing clients in litigation at Fair Work Australia and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission drafting of pleadings and advocacy in the above tribunals and in the Federal Magistrate's Court award interpretation and advice concerning termination of employment, industrial, equal opportunity, discrimination, OH&S and privacy matters advice and drafting of various executive employment agreements, workplace agreements, independent contracting agreements and policies transmissions of business and outsourcing arrangements prospects advice to government agencies regarding the merits of various prosecutions Prior to joining our firm, Costa held the role of in-house lawyer for a peak employer association for a number of years. During this time he provided comprehensive legal services to this association and its members, predominantly in the areas of employment and workplace relations. Memberships and Appointments: Law Institute of Victoria Law Institute of Victoria Workplace Relations Section - Employment & IR Committee Industrial Relations Society Victoria Australia Africa Business Council, Victorian Chapter Professional Qualifications: B.Proc, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)