Our People
Jay Sharpe - Director
Jay has extensive conciliation and litigation experience before the Federal and State Industrial Tribunals and Courts, combined with years of practical Employee Relations experience.
Jay's experience before the Industrial Relation Tribunals has included essential facets of industrial relations such as but not limited to general disputes, unfair dismissals, applications for orders, award variations, enterprise bargaining disputes, wage claims, and freedom of association matters.
Jay specialises in facilitating superior enterprise (workplace) agreements of which he has proven track record in both public and private sectors.
It is important to Jay that he understands his client's and the outcomes which they hope to achieve and to this end he provides his clients with both strategic and operational advice in all Industrial Relations and Human Resource matters.
Ross McColm - Senior Consultant
Ross is an investigator, a negotiator, a mediator, an advocate and a trainer. He has a Graduate Diploma of Business (Industrial Relations) through QUT and is also a QUT trained mediator.
With over 40 years experience in the Queensland industrial relations and training systems through his past employment in the Qld Government, a major union and an industry training organisation, Ross has extensive experience in investigating disciplinary, training and wages matters, making fair decisions, negotiating mutual outcomes through conciliation and mediation and advocating cases in the industrial tribunals.
His knowledge and experience in the industrial relations and training legislation and systems in Queensland is without peer. In 2000, Ross was a co-author of the first Order of the QIRC for competency based wage arrangements for apprentices and trainees and was the Project Manager for the review of that Order in 2003. He has been a highly successful advocate for the Qld Government in Appeals to the QIRC in relation to disciplinary matters regarding apprentices and trainees.
As Ross' experience extends to representing both employers and employees, he has developed a significant ability to understand the position of both fairly in what can otherwise be a partisan system of industrial relations. His sense of fairness to both employers and employees drives him.
Noel Cass - Senior Consultant
Noel has had over 34 years of Local Government experience and currently holds a position on the Queensland Local Government Superannuation Board.
Noel has extensive experience in Human Resource Management; Financial, Corporate & Strategic Planning; Government Relations/Submissions, Project Management and Risk Management.
Noel is a highly competent 'project manager' having managed several Queensland Projects during his local government career including: Toowoomba/Oakey Pipeline, Birdsville Water Supply/Aerodrome & Electricity Supply, Westbrook/Oakey By-pass and Longreach Hall of Fame.
