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Management Committee





The Society’s Management Committee is elected by its members each year at the Society’s AGM. The Committee meets regularly to discuss the activities of the Society – both planned and to be planned, as well as general industrial relations and membership matters.

The Committee is made up for representatives from private practice, government, unions, employer organisations, the tertiary sector and the legal profession.

The current Committee is listed below.

Patron

 

John Payne

Principal

Hall Payne Lawyers


Executive

PRESIDENT

Faiyaz Devjee
Head of Human Resources
Equans


Immediate Past President

Nate Burke
Director
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

VICE PRESIDENT (EMPLOYER)


Alison Francis

Workplace Relations Manager

Fletcher Building Australia


Vice President (EMPLOYEE)


Kait Teague

Industrial Officer

Electrical Trades Union

Vice President (Other)


Calum Woods

Senior Associate
Lander & Rogers

Secretary


Ashleigh North

Director
Queensland Fire Department

Treasurer


Dr Ben French

Course Convenor/Lecturer
Griffith University

General Committee


Employer    representative


Ezra Pyers-Tuarerewa

Manager – Workplace Relations

Business Chamber Queensland


Employer
Representative


Mo Mulenga

Specialist Consultant, Employee Relations

Origin Energy


Employee
Representative

Samantha Ramsay

Servicing Industrial Officer

Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union

Employee
Representative


Kate Flynn

Servicing Industrial Officer

Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union

Legal Profession Representative

Monique Chow
Lawyer
Clifford Gouldson Lawyers


Government Representative (State)


Joanne Webb

A/Principal Legal Officer

Brisbane Magistrates Court 

Government Representative (Commonwealth)

VACANT


Tertiary Academic Representative

Susan Ressia

Associate Professor

Griffith University


General Member


Leanne Dearlove

Special Counsel
Colin Biggers & Paisley Lawyers


General Member

Julia Grant-Vicig
Manager, Industrial Relations
Queensland Government


General Member

Daniel Pfrunder

General Manager People, Safety & Risk
HQPlantations

General Member


Richard Diqer

Senior Legal Counsel
NBN Co Limited


Student Representative

Aiden Foreman

Griffith University


Past Presidents of the Society

2023: Vaishi Rajanayagam, Independent Education Union (QLD & NT Branch)

2019 – 2023: Nate Burke, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

2015 – 2019: Jo McConnell, Together Queensland

2012 – 2015: Joanna Minchinton, Queensland Hotels Association (ALERA President 2014)

2010 – 2012: Dale Himstedt, DERM

2008 – 2010: Pat Knight, Leighton Abigroup Joint Venure

2006 – 2008: Tom Shultz, Bacon Factories Union

2004 – 2006: Cheryl-Anne Laird, Livingstones (ALERA President 2005)

2002 – 2004: Peter Garske, Queensland Trucking Association


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