Phoebe Everingham

Phoebe is an employment and industrial relations law specialist. She developed a keen interest in workplace law and industrial relations early in her working career and has worked exclusively in her chosen field since graduating university in 2011.

Phoebe worked as an Employee Relations Advisor with the Queensland Ambulance Service and as a Policy Officer in the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission’s Award Modernisation team for four years before joining Crown Law’s workplace law practice in 2016. At Crown Law, she advises on complex employee management matters and conducts proceedings in various courts and tribunals including the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission, the Queensland Human Rights Commission, the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Industrial Magistrates Court, the Supreme Court of Queensland and the Federal Court of Australia relating to unfair dismissals, general protections, bullying, unpaid wages, discrimination, workers’ compensation and public service appeal proceedings.

• Instructing and advocating in arbitration determination proceedings under Chapter 4, Part 3 of the Industrial Relations Act 2016.
• Instructing in the matter of Brasell-Dellow & Ors v State of Queensland, (Queensland Police Service) & Ors [2021] QIRC 356 before the Full Bench of the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission which challenged the Queensland Police Service’s covid vaccination mandate.
• Instructing in the matter of Connor v State of Queensland (Department of Education and Training) (No 3) [2020] FCA 455 in the Federal Court of Australia which concerned a discrimination complaint relating to the treatment of a child with an impairment in a Queensland school.
• Instructing in the matter of Tafao v State of Queensland & Ors [2018] QCAT 409 in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal which concerned a discrimination complaint by a transgender prisoner in a Queensland prison.