School Law Series 2022: Understanding and Meeting Your School’s Obligations to Manage Staff Mental Health & Wellbeing
Gain the legal information, updates & strategies you need with a series of the most important topics all tailor made for schools. Make it easy & save by registering for the series or just the sessions that interest you. Watch each session live online or as an on-demand recording. Explore the breadth of vaccinations, hiring & firing, social media, religious discrimination, LGBTIQ+ issues, sexual harassment, defamation, family law, investigations, injuries & leave, cyber risks, governance & more. WEB2211N50IZ
Description
Teachers attending will earn 1 Professional Development Hour (NSW, VIC) / CPD Point (QLD, WA, SA)
Lawyers attending will earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Understanding and Meeting Your School’s Obligations to Manage Staff Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Identifying your legal and HR issues and risks when a staff member is facing a mental health issue
- Considering the impact on other staff and on students, including your obligations to address those impacts
- Checklist of different strategies to implement when dealing with a staff member facing mental health and wellbeing issues
- Guidance on policies and procedures to have in place to support staff and minimise risk
Presented by Erin McCarthy, Partner, Piper Alderman
Presenters
Erin McCarthy
Erin McCarthy is a specialist employment partner based in Adelaide. She has fifteen years' experience in providing advice to employers and employer associations on all aspects of occupational health and safety, employment and industrial relations law as well as delivering essential information seminars and training workshops on key employment issues. Erin has experience providing advice in relation to performance management, misconduct investigations and unfair dismissal claims, bullying, discrimination and harassment matters and occupational health and safety issues including support clients during investigations, defending prosecutions and risk management and policy development. Erin is a co-, author with Professor Andrew Stewart and Elise Jenkin of Parental Leave: A User Friendly Guide published by Thomson Reuters. The book examines the practical interaction between various leave entitlements as well as managing pregnant employees in the workplace and return to work from parental leave. As a part of the Piper Alderman Employment Relations national team, Erin advises clients in all states and territories in Australia. In 2015 she was once again listed in the peer-selected "Best Lawyers, Australia" in the practice area of Labour and Employment.