About Us

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Our Director : Stephen Farrell 

Human Resources and Employee Relations Consultant, specialising in IR matters, representing clients in courts and Commissions, corporate structure and employee engagement matters. 

Stephen Farrell is an experienced practitioner with around 20 years in Human Resources and Industrial Relations experience.

Stephen commenced his career at the CPSU/CSA, the union for Western Australian state public servants in assisting union members negotiate their terms and conditions, advocate and participate in consultancy committee within their workplace and represent members in both the state and federal industrial relations commissions.

Stephen was the Assistant Director of Human Resources for Serco Australia at Acacia Prison between 2011 and 2014. In this role, he provided advice to the Director, Acacia Prison and the rest of the Senior Management Team in workplace law, management, HR policy, employee relations, workers’ compensation, recruitment, training and development and best HR practice. After leaving Serco, Stephen joined the Chamber of Commerce & Industry WA as a senior workplace relations consultant where he focussed on the training of clients on their obligations as employers, best management practice in performance management as well as conducting workplace investigations and representing clients in the Fair Work and Western Australian commissions.

Stephen has extensive experience representing clients in both the Fair Work and Western Australian industrial commissions, before both single commissioners and Full Benches. In his current role as Director of SJF Work Advice Pty Ltd, he provides the following services to clients:

• HR Consultancy
• Mediation of employee conflict
• Representation in tribunals and commissions
• Workplace Investigations
• Review and drafting of employment contracts
• Workplace compliance audits
• Facilitation of Training Courses
• Mentoring managers
• General IR advice

His clientele comes from a wide range of industries including local government, real estate, not for profit and Aboriginal community organisations.