Workplace Law Forum
Issues covered include: general protection orders, #metoo, injured workers, mental health
Description
It’d be nice if you could simply tell yourself and your clients to keep calm and carry on working. But with so many rapidly developing changes, growing risks, and ever increasing challenges for employment lawyers and HR personnel, it’s never so simple. Gain essential knowledge of the most topical contemporary issues related to general protections, sexual harassment, managing long term ill employees, mental health and more.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
2.5 units in Substantive Law
0.5 unit in Professional Skills
Chair: Kirsty Stewart, Barrister, Howard Zelling Chambers
2.00pm to 2.45pm: General Protection Orders
- Choice of jurisdiction and nature of employment
- Workplace rights, discrimination and adverse action
- Persons involved in contraventions
- Penalties, general breaches and remedies
- Costs
Presented by Rick Manuel, Barrister, Rick Manuel; Recommended Employment & WHS Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2019
2.45pm to 3.30pm: How Businesses are Managing Challenges of #MeToo
- Properly defining sexual harassment: less obvious examples and red flags
- Know the current law(s): what employers must do to avoid being vicariously liable for the misdeeds of others
- Best practice training: how employers are implementing training that is engaging, tailored, practical and sensitive
- Best practice drafting: how employers are perfecting the content and style of their code of conduct, policies and procedures
- Best practice in leadership: modelling appropriate behaviours and fostering a compliance culture
- Managing the challenges in practice: workplace relationships and out of hours conduct
Presented by Michael Kay, Practice Leader, Employment and Safety, Wallmans Lawyers; Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation) Doyle’s Guide 2019; Best Lawyers 2019, Labour & Employment
3.30pm to 3.45pm Afternoon Tea
3.45pm to 4.30pm: Management of Ill and Injured Workers
- Legal risks; the legal framework and common claims
- Dealing with medical evidence
- Directing employees to attend independent medical examinations
- Mental health and performance issues
- Reasonable adjustments
Presented by Michael Kay, Practice Leader, Employment and Safety, Wallmans Lawyers; Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation) Doyle’s Guide 2019; Best Lawyers 2019, Labour & Employment
Professional Skills
4.30pm to 5.15pm: The Psychology of Mental Health
- What is mental health and mental illness and how can it impact performance at work?
- What are some of the warning signs of psychological difficulty?
- How to plan and start a conversation with a staff member who has been displaying behaviours that may indicate mental health issues, including the intersection with performance, eg. what if they won’t disclose?
- Addressing inter-personal issues before matters escalate
- What does a mentally healthy workplace look like?
- What is a culture of wellbeing and how do you create one?
Presented by Samantha Young, Managing Director, Human Psychology
Venue
Stamford Plaza Adelaide Hotel
Level 2, 150 North Terrace
Adelaide 5000
SA
Australia