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Issues covered include: underpayment, sexual harassment, out of hours conduct, unfair dismissal, termination, casual workers, surveillance, drug and alcohol testing, enterprise bargaining, industrial disputation
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, it’s never so simple. Gain essential knowledge from our panel of experts as they delve into the most topical contemporary issues including the changing employment landscape, unfair dismissal, drug and alcohol testing, surveillance in the workplace and more.
Attend and earn 7 CPD units in Substantive Law
This symposium was recorded in NSW on 8 March 2019
Workplace Disputes and Claims
Chair: Judith Healy, Partner, JH Law
9.00am to 10.00am: #wagetheft: Underpayment Claims
Presented by Tim Frost, Partner, PwC
10.00am to 11.00am: Working with Claims of Sexual Harassment
Presented by Dimity Leahy, Special Counsel, Colin Biggers and Paisley Lawyers
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Out of Hours Conduct and the Workplace
Presented by Deirdre McEvoy, Senior Associate, McArdle Legal; Accredited Specialist in Employment and Industrial Law
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Termination of Employment: Unfair Dismissal
Review a range of significant unfair dismissal case law and developments across a range of topics.
Presented by Alex Grayson, Principal Lawyer, Maurice Blackburn
Workplace Practices and Enterprise Bargaining
Chair: Nicola Martin, Principal, McCabe Curwood
2.00pm to 2.45pm: From Casual to Permanent: The Changing Employment Landscape
Presented by Michael Byrnes, Partner, Swaab
2.45pm to 3.30pm: Surveillance in the Workplace
Presented by Chris McArdle, Principal, McArdle Legal
3.30pm to 3.45pm Afternoon Tea
3.45pm to 4.30pm: Drug and Alcohol Testing in the Workplace: the Law and Practice
Presented by Dr Nicole Lee, Director at 360edge and Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute and Sebastian McIntosh, Barrister, Thirteen Wentworth Selborne Chambers
4.30pm to 5.15pm: Strategies and Developments in Enterprise Bargaining and Industrial Disputation
Presented by Stephen Trew, Managing Partner and Louise Rumble, Special Counsel, Holding Redlich