Key Trends and Developments in Employment Law
Stay on top of the most critical new legislation, cases, trends and developments impacting the workplace. Walk away with the key principles, strategies and policies your organisation needs to react to the latest workplace developments so that you and your organisation stay out of trouble and a step ahead of the many employment law risks facing companies today. WEB2111N05G
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Key Trends and Developments in Employment Law
Explore the latest trends, developments and cases in employment law and analyse the critical takeaways and strategies that in-house counsel need to minimize risk in their role and for their organisation.
Presented by Amy Zhang, Executive Counsel & Team Leader and Justin Pen, Solicitor, Harmers Workplace Lawyers
Presenters
Amy Zhang, Executive Counsel & Team Leader, Harmers Workplace Lawyers
Amy is a multi-award winning Executive Counsel & Team Leader at Harmers Workplace Lawyers. Amy works across all of the firm’s practice areas, and has experience in areas including complex litigation, restraint of trade, sexual harassment, discrimination, work health and safety prosecutions, fair work ombudsman investigations and prosecutions, performance management, terminations, redundancies, contract, policy and enterprise agreement review and drafting, modern award interpretation, unfair dismissal and adverse action. Amy acts for a range of clients, including multi-national corporations, ASX and NASDAQ-listed companies and SMEs, across a range of industries. Amy is also a regular contributor and commentator on workplace law and law reform in industry publications and the media
Justin Pen, Solicitor, Harmers Workplace Lawyers
Justin is a solicitor at Harmers Workplace Lawyers and practises in all areas of employment law, including discrimination and human rights law and work health and safety law. He has previously worked as an employment lawyer at the Marrickville Legal Centre and as a Tipstaff to a Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Justin acts for both employees, including marginalised and vulnerable workers and senior executives and high net-worth individuals, and employers, including SMEs and large national and multi-national companies, in advisory and litigious matters. In 2020, Justin was a finalist in the 30 under 30 Award in the Employment and Workplace Relations category and, in 2017, won the 2017 NSW Young Lawyers’ McCallum Medal.