Employment Law Symposium - The Key Outcomes from the Jobs and Skills Summit & Managing Workplace Change: Legal Risk and Best Practice for Employers
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Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
9.20am to 10.00am The Key Outcomes from the Jobs and Skills Summit
The Jobs and Skills Summit brought Australians together to work constructively on the challenges and opportunities facing the Australian labour market. Keep abreast of the outcomes by analysing:
- The Government's economic agenda and priorities for future action
- The areas of reform that were discussed and debated, including multi-employer/industry bargaining
- The existing and forthcoming legislative and policy agenda
- The Employment White Paper: what to expect over the next 12 months
Presented by Ben Dudley, Partner and Philippa Noakes, Senior Associate, Seyfarth Shaw Australia
10.00am to 10.40am Managing Workplace Change: Legal Risk and Best Practice for Employers
- Types of workplace change: proposed redundancies, redesigning jobs/structure, roster changes
- Planning: the importance of clear comms, key issues risk review, strategic planning
- Implementation, consultation, redeployment, notification, recent case law
- Reforming: post-change integration
- Practical take-aways: communication and training
Presented by Alina Kaye, Partner, The Workplace
Presenters
Ben Dudley
Ben has been practicing employment law for more than 20 years, acting across almost all major industries in Australia, in all of the courts and tribunals, and in relation to the spectrum of employment and industrial disputes that might arise. He has experience working at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, in the UK, and for many blue-chip employers in high-profile disputes. He has a broad experience in the types of challenges that arise in relation to complex employment and industrial matters.
Philippa Noakes
Philippa’s experience covers the spectrum of employee-employer relations and she provides timely, effective and strategic advice to solve workplace concerns as they arise. If a client has an issue that needs to be addressed, Philippa works to ensure that the concern is resolved in a way that meets the commercial and operational drivers for her clients. Philippa works with clients across a broad range of industries including retail, financial services, transport, logistics, and the legal industry (yes, lawyers need lawyers too). At heart, Philippa is a litigator and relishes the opportunity to represent her clients’ interests in tribunals and courts in all jurisdictions. In litigious matters, Philippa has carved out a niche expertise in contentious and often high profile restraint litigation, and pairs this with a love for complex industrial and employment disputes. Philippa is an exceptional project manager of large litigious disputes and works with clients to make sure such matters are managed in a way that limits the time-cost to employers who need to get on with business as usual.
Alina Kaye
Alina is an experienced employment and industrial law specialist, who has worked with clients across a range of industries including media, finance, education, telecommunications, retail and hospitality. Alina has previously worked in a boutique employment law practice and in the employment teams of large, national and international firms. Her clients praise her calm, considered and highly strategic approach to workplace issues. Alina is passionate about employment law and keeping on top of the constantly evolving legal and political space. She has also spent part of her career working as a Senior Writer for one of the world’s leading legal publishers Thomson Reuters. She prides herself on keeping up-to-date with the latest developments and assisting clients to proactively navigate these changes.