Workplace Discrimination & Managing Injured Employees
Issues covered include: workplace law, managing physically or psychologically injured employees, discrimination, adverse action
Description
Managing injured employees whether physical or psychological, is a challenge fraught with legal risk. Explore how to effectively deal with these issues from every angle. From navigating discrimination in the workplace issues to examining latest in adverse action to exploring the complex yet significant interplay between workers compensation and managing injured workers, this all-inclusive program covers the key areas you must know.
Attend and earn 4 CPD in Substantive Law
Chair: Malcolm Harding SC, List G Barristers
DISCRIMINATION AND ADVERSE ACTION
9.00am to 10.00am: Discrimination in the Workplace
- Critical takeaways from recent discrimination case law
- Reasonable accommodations/adjustments under anti-discrimination legislation
- Accommodating family and carer responsibilities
- Fair Work Act obligations in relation to position changes during parental leave
- Unfair dismissal and maternity leave redundancies
Presented by Helene Lee, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
10.00am to 11.00am: Adverse Action: The Latest Cases and Practical Guidance
- Fair Work Act 2009 and adverse action
- The key elements and strategies you need to consider about adverse action claims
- Case studies and practical tips
Presented by Rohan Millar, Barrister, Douglas Menzies Chambers; Recommended Employment Law Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2019
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 1.15pm: 2-HOUR INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: Managing Injured Workers at the Workplace: How Employment Law and Workers Compensation Law Interact
Bring all of your questions to this unique interactive workshop. Gain the skills, tools, information and strategies you need by working through a factual scenario examining the following:
- Pre-existing injuries and pre-employment checks: What can an employer ask?
- An employer’s obligation when an employee lodges a workers compensation claim form: Can an employer object to the claim?
- What is ‘management action’ taken on reasonable grounds and in a reasonable manner, and how should an employer counsel, discipline or dismiss an employee?
- The ‘return to work’ obligation: What must an employer do and can an employer dismiss an employee or make an employee’s position redundant?
- Subrogation to WorkSafe of all rights of action in a claim: why this principle means an employer has fewer options than an employee to object to WorkSafe’s decisions
Presented by Rob Jackson, Partner, Rigby Cooke Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Workplace Relations; author, Post Employment Restraint of Trade, Federation Press, and Ross Sicilia, Senior Legal Manager, Xchanging; Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
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