Employment Contracts and Policies
Issues covered include: employment contracts, bonus clauses, commission clauses, workplacesuveilance, office romance, confidentiality clauses, IP clauses, workplace polices
Description
In this interactive workshop you will run through the key issues you need to consider when dealing with workplace contracts and particular clauses in light of recent decisions, legal principles and national and statutory requirements so that you are fully equipped to recognise, avoid and eliminate loopholes in your existing contracts.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
PART 1 Explore key employment contract issues including:
- What happened to probation?
- Express and implied terms
- A checklist for best practice
- The ‘bad’ employment contract: what to watch out for
- Bonus and commission clauses
- Using and drafting non-compete, non-solicitation and restraint of trade clauses
- Confidentiality and IP clauses
- Workplace surveillance clauses
- Office romance clauses
PART 2 Examine the interaction between an employment contract and workplace policies and gain useful tips on ensuring that policies do not create any express or implied contractual obligation on an employer.
Facilitator:
John Love, Partner, EMA Legal, Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2020
Presented by:
Melissa Harvey, Senior Associates, MinterEllison
Kirsty Stewart, Barrister, Howard Zelling Chambers; Leading Junior Counsel, Employment & WHS Law, Doyle’s Guide 2020