- Overview
- Experience
Introduction
Adrian is a senior employment and industrial relations strategist with deep cross-industry experience in workforce change, HR management and complex workplace disputes.
Adrian Morris is a senior consultant in our employment practice, having been a partner from 1979 to 2016.
Adrian advises on strategic planning, including for greenfield operations, change management, industrial relations and individual employment issues.
Adrian has an exceptional depth of experience and broad knowledge of clients' business and HR management needs across a wide spectrum of industries including resources, mining, oil, maritime, stevedoring, transport, manufacturing and construction.
He was National Practice Leader of the Industrial Relations and Employment practice from 1994 to 2003. From 2003 to 2006 Adrian was an Executive Partner and member of the firm's Executive Team, responsible for the firm's Brisbane office, major client program and the industrial relations, employment, litigation and dispute resolution practice areas.
- Alcoa of Australia | Marie-Claire-Foley | 2018-2019 | Advised on the strategy for negotiating new enterprise agreements for Alcoa's bauxite and alumina operations in Western Australia in circumstances of acute cost pressures and competition.
- Ausgrid | 2022-2023 | Advised and represented Ausgrid, a major electricity distributor, on its renegotiation of its enterprise agreement.
- Aurizon Holdings Limited | Adrian Morris | 2013-2014 | Advised and represented Aurizon, a major rail transport operation serving the resources industry on its successful and groundbreaking application to a full bench of the Fair Work Commission to terminate 12 enterprise agreements that were impeding essential improvements in its business performance.
- Hutchison Ports Australia | Trent Sebbens | 2022-2026 | Advised this container terminal operator on industrial relations and employment strategies for its Sydney and Brisbane terminals.
- BaptistCare | Talia Firth | 2025-2026 | Advised and represented BaptistCare, a major aged-care provider on its successful application in the Fair Work Commission, to bring five acquired businesses, that had been operating under five separate enterprise agreements, under a single enterprise agreement.