Dave Burnton

Dave is Lawlux's Managing Principal and leads the employment and industrial relations practice.

He spent 14 years at leading Australian firms, Hall & Wilcox and Mills Oakley, acting for employers on employee claims, Fair Work compliance, complex underpayments, restructures, separations, restraints, investigations and union disputation.

He holds an LLB with First Class Honours from Monash University, writes for Thomson Reuters, and is an Adjunct Lecturer in legal innovation at Charles Sturt University. He was named winner of the 30 Under 30 Awards for Workplace Relations, Employment and Safety, and is admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia.

• Employee claims and disputes
• Fair Work Act compliance
• Complex underpayments and remediation
• Restructures, redundancies and separations
• Restraints of trade and confidential information
• Workplace investigations
• Enterprise bargaining and union disputation

• Acting for a national law firm to investigate allegations of timesheet fraud and sexual harassment against a senior partner.
• Acting for a national retailer to quantify, remediate and negotiate Fair Work Ombudsman enforceable undertakings for an underpayment of more than $5 million affecting over 500 employees.
• Acting for a global logistics company on a restructure of its Australian workforce.