Workplace Law Roundup
Issues covered include: workplace law, industrial relations, bullying and harassment, contracting, casual employees, performance management, ill or injured employees, vulnerable workers, underpayments, penalties
Description
The hot topics in workplace law that you need to be on top of for your clients or your organisation cannot be ignored. Gain critical knowledge and strategies on how to deal with the ever present spectre of bullying and harassment. Sharpen your skills on sham contracting and the evolving casual employee landscape. Refine your game plan for performance managing and disciplining ill or injured workers. And finally, get caught up on the changing landscape of vulnerable workers, underpayments and penalties.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
2.00pm to 2.45pm: Practically and Effectively Dealing with Bullying and Harassment
- Examining bullying and harassment in the workplace and what employers need to worry about
- Who is protected from bullying and harassment in a workplace?
- Steps employers should take to try to eliminate bullying and harassment
- Consequences and managing risks when bullying and harassment occurs
- Recent case law
Presented by Erica Hartley, Partner, HWL Ebsworth; Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2019
2.45pm to 3.30pm: Sham Contracting and Dealing with Casual Employees
- Considering the legislative framework
- Important takeaways from recent cases
- The consequences of getting it wrong
Presented by Anna Creegan, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills; Leading Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2019
3.30pm to 3.45pm: Afternoon Tea
3.45pm to 4.30pm: Performance Management and Discipline of Ill or Injured Workers: Answering the Key Questions
- Employer’s rights and obligations
- Protections for employees
- Key legal risks and how to manage them
- What is ‘best practice’?
- Top tips for employers and employees
Presented by Samantha Maddern, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright; Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2019
4.30pm to 5.15pm: Vulnerable Workers, Underpayments, Penalties and the Changing Landscape: Compliance with Federal Laws
- Vulnerable workers, underpayments and penalties
- Award obligations and minimum pay obligations
- Casual employees and the Skene decision
- Increased penalties for ‘serious contraventions’
- Record keeping obligations and reverse onus of proof under s 557C
- Unauthorised deductions and ‘cashback’ schemes
- Accessorial liability under s 550
- Phoenixing and Corporations Amendment (Strengthening Protections for Employee Entitlements) Act 2019
- Changing landscape of compliance with Federal laws
- Class actions
- Coal operations and casuals
- FWO
- Likely increase in funding (in line with trends following Banking Royal Commission)
- Targeting of particular industries with track records of systematic underpayments, i.e. hospitality industry
- Compliance with the spirit of the law
Presented by Leanne Nickels, Partner, DLA Piper; Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2019
Venue
Parmelia Hilton
Level 1, Meeting Room, 14 Mill Street
Perth 6000
WA
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - The Esplanade Station
Bus Interchange - St Georges Terrace Cloisters Green
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