Registered Training Organisations: Law and Regulation
Deepen your understanding of what you need to know to remain compliant in 2024 and avoid the Tribunal. Learn about challenging decisions if you do end up before the AAT. Obtain an overview of intellectual property as it applies to your training and assessment materials and get up to speed on what you need to know about employment law with an emphasis on recent developments. WEB247N08
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Alexis Watt, General Manager, Adelaide Institute of Business & Technology (AIBT)
9.00am to 10.00am How RTOs Can Take Advantage of Internal Reviews and Avoid the Tribunal: The Legal Perspective
- The legal status of notices by ASQA of either its Intention to Make a Decision or Notice of Decision: the available approaches to accepting an invitation from ASQA to respond to such notices, including the provision of evidence and submissions
- Understanding ASQA’s primary focus and concerns arising from its Assessment Reports/Audit Reports and Statements of Reasons and preparing targeted responses to findings and legal submissions responding to its Reasons for Decision
- How to prepare responses to findings of noncompliance and correlating them to legal submissions opposing ASQA’s intended decision or its decision
- Preserving the status of the RTO by delaying the implementation of any decision pending internal review and, in some circumstances, anticipating an application to the Tribunal for merits review and preparing evidence and submissions in connection with internal review to minimise the scope and timeframe of a substantive Tribunal hearing and to obtaining a stay order from the Tribunal
Presented by Nick Galatas, Partner, GPZ Legal
10.00am to 11.00am Challenging Decisions in the AAT and Federal Court: Important Information for RTO’s
- Preparing to apply to challenge a decision
- The procedural and substantive differences between applying to challenge decisions in the Federal Court and in the AAT
- Picking which is the appropriate forum for challenging a decision
- Strategies for conducting proceedings in the Federal Court and AAT
Presented by Angus O’Brien, Barrister, Gerard Brennan Chambers
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Break
11.15am to 12.15pm Employment Law for the RTO Sector
- Latest developments in employment law that you need to understand
- Fixed Term Contracts
- Casual Employment
- Sexual Harassment
- Unfair Dismissal: the relevant considerations
- General protections and adverse action: the importance of the decision maker
- Bullying: protecting staff from abuse
Presented by Michael Byrnes, Partner, Swaab
12.15pm to 1.15pm Key Immigration Issues for the RTO Sector
Take this opportunity to hear legal and subject matter experts cover the changes to the immigration policy changes made in December 2023 by the Commonwealth government which are having a significant impact on providers.
Panel includes:
Alexis Watt, General Manager, Adelaide Institute of Business & Technology (AIBT)
Lily Ong, Lily Ong Business Lawyers & Migration Consultants; Accredited Specialist Immigration Law; Leading Immigration Lawyers & Agents Doyles Guide 2023