Emma is a seasoned mediator, facilitator and arbitrator with specialist knowledge of collective agreements and the joint and meaningful consensus seeking process of section 189A facilitation. With a cum laude in labour law from UCT, she is accredited by the CCMA and has served as a panellist for several leading bargaining councils for more than a decade. 

She has resolved deadlocked wage disputes, regularised short-time arrangements, and helped parties reach consensus on a range of complex individual, collective and substantive issues including exemption applications. She is adept at drawing up picketing rules and has published an article in the South African Industrial Law Journal on the section 189A consultation process. 

Emma also brings professional writing skills from her previous career as a UK journalist to the table as well as experience as a legal trainer for senior government officials, trade union and business leaders for a non-profit organisation. She is an accomplished independent arbitrator with a reputation for issuing fair, plain-English awards. 

Having worked full-time for three years as a legal trainer for a not-for-profit organisation specialising in the Protected Disclosures Act, she has facilitated extensive workshops and roundtables with senior government officials, business leaders and organised labour as well as produced valuable resource material and reports on corruption and whistleblowing in the workplace.