Redundancy, Standing Down and Performance Management During COVID-19
Issues covered include: COVID-19, redundancy, standing down, poor performance, pay cutes
Description
With widespread workforce pay cuts and redundancies in many sectors it’s a certainty that the fuse has been lit on workplace litigation. Get the facts and strategies that you and your clients need regarding standing down staff, firing employees with poor performance during lockdown, ensuring procedural fairness with terminations, and managing the legal implications of redundancies and pay cuts.
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
How to Navigate the Litigation Hot Spots of Redundancies, Standing Down and Terminating Poor Performers
- Redundancy during the crisis
- Standing down employees: the legal considerations
- Can an employer terminate an employee for poor performance during the crisis?
- Other options to redundancies, stand downs and pay cuts
- Review of recent cases
Presented by Michael Byrnes, Partner, Swaab
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Presenters
Michael Byrnes is a workplace relations lawyer with over 20 years' experience in assisting clients navigate employment and work health and safety issues. He provides advice on all aspects of the employment relationship including the hiring process, day-to-day operations and termination of employment. Michael is often called upon for expert opinion in the media, on workplace relations and WHS law issues. He has appeared on numerous radio segments and quoted in publications including The Age, Lawyers Weekly, Workplace Express, OHS Alert, SmartCompany and InTheBlack. He is also a co-author of the LexisNexis publication "Annotated Fair Work Act & Related Legislation.