- Position:
- Managing Principal Solicitor
- Qualification:
- LLB (Hons), BA, Grad Dip (Legal Practice)
- Area of law:
- Workplace relations and occupational health and safety, Human rights and equal opportunity, Administrative decision making and review, Interpretation and development of legislation, Construction and infrastructure projects
Ronan has over a decade's experience advising on all aspects of workplace and industrial relations, anti-discrimination and safety.
Prior to the VGSO, Ronan worked as a workplace relations lawyer at an ASX20 company; a Senior Associate at a market-leading Australian law firm; and a lawyer in the Commonwealth Government.
Ronan has advised Victorian Government bodies on:
- employee disciplinary action and termination of employment, and acted in employment-related proceedings in the Fair Work Commission and Victorian and federal courts and tribunals
- all stages of enterprise bargaining (including acting as a bargaining representative) and defending industrial disputes
- managing organisational change, including restructuring; consultation with employees and unions; and redeployment/retrenchment of impacted employees;
- payroll compliance
- sensitive and high profile workplace investigations
- management of ill and injured employees
- protected industrial action.
Ronan was nominated by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers (Ones to Watch) in Australia in Labour and Employment Law in 2025. Ronan is also a member of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria, and sits on the Appeals Board for a suburban amateur football league.
Mobile: 0477 029 212
Email: ronan.odonnell@vgso.vic.gov.au
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