Dr Nadia Stojanova

Overview

Dr Nadia Stojanova is a barrister at the Victorian Bar. Nadia’s practice focuses on employment law, industrial relations and regulatory law.

Nadia is a lecturer at Melbourne Law School and is also a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law.

Nadia is also the Chief Examiner for the Victorian Bar Entrance Examinations.

Nadia runs a busy practice at the Victorian Bar where she is regularly briefed for litigation, advice, drafting and complex workplace matters (such as high-risk investigations and media-sensitive disputes). Nadia has a special interest in regulatory schemes specific to employment law around Australia (such as the wage theft and labour hire licensing schemes) as well as cases involving the interpretation of enterprise agreements and modern awards.

Nadia manages a wide range of employment matters at the Victorian Bar involving a broad suite of industrial issues such as breaches of employment contracts/modern awards/enterprise agreements/statutes, industrial negotiations, sham contracting, Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) civil remedy provision contraventions, underpayment claims, workplace bullying, discrimination, general protections, unfair dismissal, annualised salary concerns and bonus scheme disputes.

Nadia has a strong academic background. Nadia is an Accredited Advocacy Instructor with The Australian Advocacy Institute and a lecturer at the University of Melbourne in Law. She has worked as an academic at law schools around Australia. Nadia has been published multiple times in peer-reviewed, scholarly legal journals and has completed a PhD thesis on the legal prevention of workplace bullying.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Nadia developed broad professional experience in employment law and industrial relations. Nadia worked in principal, senior and advisory positions across numerous sectors including the legal industry, government, academia, business, the professional services industry and a registered organisation. Nadia has worked across organisations including Ernst & Young, the Australian Industry Group, Industrial Relations Victoria in the Victorian Government and the Box Hill Institute Group.