Joseph provides strategic legal advice and representation to employees and trade unions across a wide range of workplace disputes. He has extensive experience assisting clients to navigate complex employment and industrial relations matters, with a focus on achieving practical outcomes that protect both their legal rights and professional reputations.
Joseph regularly appears, both as advocate and instructing counsel, in contested hearings before a variety of Australian courts and tribunals, particularly in the Fair Work Commission and the Federal Court of Australia. He is known for his thoughtful and progressive approach to the law, using legal frameworks to address workplace inequality and injustice while delivering cost-effective solutions for his clients.
Before joining Hall Payne, Joseph worked at a private labour law firm in Sydney and as a lawyer with the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union and the former iteration of the United Workers Union. These roles provided him with deep insight into the challenges faced by working people and the unions that represent them.
Joseph holds specialist accreditation from the Law Society of New South Wales in Employment and Industrial Law and serves on the Advisory Committee for that practice area. He is recognised in Doyle’s Guide as a Leading Employment Lawyer in New South Wales. Joseph has also been involved in significant matters including the successful Federal Court appeal in Fair Work Building Inspectorate v Bragdon & Ors, which clarified principles relating to union right of entry, and the successful reinstatement of workers in several Fair Work Commission matters.
Joseph is a founding director of RUN DIPG (a child cancer charity) and did a volunteer internship with the UN Refugee Agency in Zambia.
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