- Position:
- Principal Solicitor
- Qualification:
- BA, LLB (Hons), Grad. Dip. Legal Practice
- Area of law:
- Administrative decision making and review, Human rights and equal opportunity, Disciplinary proceedings and prosecutions, Workplace relations and occupational health and safety
Romina is a lawyer of over 14 years’ experience practicing exclusively in the government service, primarily in the areas of employment, discrimination, regulatory and administrative law.
Her work experience at the VGSO includes providing advice and advocacy on:
- disciplinary procedures and appeals
- judicial and merits review
- privacy and Freedom of Information
- termination
- discrimination
- occupational health and safety
- transfer of employment, redeployment
- redundancy
- accident compensation and return to work obligations
- unfair dismissal
- general protections
- disputes under various public sector workplace agreements
- statutory interpretation.
Romina has conducted litigation work in the Supreme Court, Fair Work Commission, VCAT and before statutory boards under the Veterinary Practice Act 1997 and the Education and Training Reform Act 2006, and has undertaken and advised on numerous workplace investigations for a number of public sector organisations and has advised on the sufficiency of evidence in numerous investigations for regulators. Romina also has significant in-house experience through secondments to legal and human resources teams at the Department of Education, the Department of Justice and Community Safety and Victoria Police.
Mobile: 0439 260 940
Email: romina.woll@vgso.vic.gov.au
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