Jack Faine

Jack practices in areas including sexual harassment, trade union litigation, unfair dismissal and general protections matters, discrimination claims, anti-bullying applications, professional disciplinary matters, workplace investigations and restraints of trade.

Jack has a personable and creative approach to matters and is focussed on dealing with both the legal and strategic issues that arise in employment matters. Jack’s previous matters include:

• acting for corporate and public sector whistle-blowers, including school counsellor Maree Keel against St Kevin’s College in 2020;
• acting for clients sexually harassed in the workplace, including negotiating financial settlements;
• successfully challenging a disciplinary sanction imposed on an emergency services worker by the Paramedicine Board of Australia in VCAT: Paton v Paramedicine Board of Australia (Review and Regulation) [2020] VCAT 872;
• acting in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia for a tutor mischaracterised as an independent contractor and obtaining orders for back pay, superannuation and a contribution towards legal fees;
• acting in discrimination matters, including achieving settlements that involved improvements to access and inclusivity in the workplace;
• successfully obtaining a variation to the orders of the Federal Court of Australia to regularise non-compliance with previous orders of the Court:  DHL Supply Chain (Australia) Pty Limited v United Workers' Union (No 2) [2021] FCA 1401; and
• acting for an underpaid migrant worker in the Federal Circuit Court and achieving over a year’s wages in back-pay: Nasirian v Sarvastani [2020] FCCA 355.
   

Jack has extensive experience assisting executive and senior employees to negotiate departures from challenging situations. Jack has also represented trade unions and other organisations in a variety of regulatory matters and in 2018, he assisted GetUp! in an inquiry into its electoral status.

Jack is on the board of Overland literary journal.