HFW has expanded its Australian Employment practice with the hire of partner Simon Billing, who is recognised as one of the leading specialist industrial relations, safety and employment law solicitors in Perth. Billing has over 30 years of employee relations experience, both as a legal practitioner in private practice and employee relations consultant for the Australian Resources & Energy Group. In addition to advising clients in the firm’s core sectors, particularly mining, oil and gas, shipping and maritime, engineering and construction, he also acts for clients in the hospitality, health, education and telecommunication sectors. Billing brings with him a team that includes a specialist workplace investigator.