Employment Law Alert: Roundtable Analysis
This Omnibus Bill may have been rejected, but the many issues, challenges & risks it attempted to address still pose a significant problem for those in the workplace. This panel of workplace law specialists will take you through the current status & recent decisions regarding wage theft, casualisation, IR reforms, modern awards and enterprise agreements. This session is designed to be interactive so be ready to examine and analyse what this will mean for your practice and your clients. WEB216N05
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Employment Law Alert: Roundtable Analysis
Facilitator and Chair: Tim Donaghey, Barrister, Greens List Barristers
Examine, analyse and discuss key issues including:
- Wage Theft Claims: A crime?
- Casualisation: Pay and Leave Entitlements
- Vaccinations and the Return to the Workplace
- General Protections
- Contractors/Employees
Panellists include:
Michael Byrnes, Partner, Swaab
Shawn Skyring, Partner, Coleman Greig
Luis Izzo, Managing Director, Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors, Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2020
Danny King, Principal, Danny King Legal; Leading Employment Lawyer (Employee & Trade Union Representation) and Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2020
Presenters
Tim Donaghey
Tim is a leading industrial relations and employment law barrister with extensive experience advising on matters such as employment and contractor agreements, awards, general protections, industrial action, injunctive relief and commercial proceedings related to workplace law.He has a national practice and is a member of both the Victorian and New South Wales Bars. Tim holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne. Before being called to the bar in 2002, Tim practised as a solicitor in employment law and industrial relations. He also provided legal counsel for the Australian Hotel Association in Canberra.
Michael Byrnes
Michael Byrnes is a partner of Swaab. He is a workplace relations lawyer with over 20 years' experience in assisting clients navigate employment and work health and safety issues. Michael runs specially tailored training programs and seminars for clients (including at board level). He also drafts and reviews workplace policies and undertakes complex and sensitive workplace investigations. As well as regularly presenting at conferences, Michael is often called upon for expert opinion in the media. He has appeared on numerous radio segments and regularly quoted in publications including The Australian Financial Review and The Age.
Shawn Skyring
Shawn Skyring is a Principal Lawyer with Coleman Greig’s Employment Law team. With over 26 years’ experience in workplace matters, industrial relations and employment law, he brings a complementary depth and breadth of expertise to the team. His specialist expertise is set across a broad range of industries, with in-depth knowledge and experience in local government, the transport industry, hospitality, recreation, waste collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, to name a few. With extensive experience in private legal practice, as well as working with a peak employer organisation for a number of years, Shawn’s clients benefit from his broad industry knowledge and his valuable advice.
Luis Izzo
Luis oversees ABLA's Sydney Workplace Relations practice and has over a decade’s experience practicing as a specialist employment and industrial relations lawyer acting for a broad range of employers across both the private and public sector. His advocacy experience in State and Federal Courts and Tribunals is extensive. In addition to achieving successful outcomes for clients as an advocate in numerous unfair dismissal and industrial dispute arbitrations, he acted as one of the lead employer advocates in the 2014/2015 Fair Work Commission Annual Leave Test Case as well as the highly publicised 2016/2017 Penalty Rates Test Case.
Danny King
Danny is the founder and Managing Director of Danny King Legal. Danny King has been recognised in the Doyles Guide consecutively from 2015 - 2020 as a Leading Lawyer in Employment and Industrial Relations. Danny believes that successful businesses are about people. Working with that in mind, she gets better results than those who just fight for the sake of the fight. Danny started her own firm at the tender age of 27 (a decade ago), and understands the thrill of business growth and the complexities involved in managing employment relationships.