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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)

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