Virtual event |
ACC Australia
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC AustraliaAs most COVID-19 restrictions are lifted across Australian states and territories, workplaces are contemplating this new post-pandemic landscape and its implications for their workforce.
There are undoubtedly lasting effects shaping the present and future of work and much to consider regarding employment and work health and safety law.
Join Wolters Kluwer Australia and Michael Byrnes, Partner in Employment, Workplace Health and Safety at Swaab, to discuss the pressing matters in-house counsel need to know to advise in this situation.
What you’ll learn:
- How employers can manage requests for flexible arrangements
- How/whether employers can encourage or require employees to return to office-based work
- Ensuring hybrid or work from home arrangements comply with legal requirements
- Workplace privacy and information security for employees working from home
- Managing performance and communicating with employees who are not in the office
- WHS and workers compensation issues for employees working at home
Speakers
Michael Byrnes, Partner at Swaab
Michael Byrnes is a Partner at Swaab and a workplace relations lawyer with over 20 years of experience assisting clients to navigate employment, discrimination and work health and safety issues. He advises on all aspects of the employment relationship, including employment contracts, modern awards and enterprise agreements, antidiscrimination and diversity, sexual harassment, bullying, performance and conduct, managing illness and injury, industrial disputes, unfair dismissal, adverse action/general protection, confidential information, post-employment restraints and WHS.
He is an experienced advocate, undertakes complex workplace investigations and delivers bespoke training on employment law issues (including at board level).
He is a co-author of the publications ‘Annotated Fair Work Act & Related Legislation’ and ‘Fair Work: A user-friendly guide’. As well as regularly presenting at seminars and conferences, Michael is frequently called upon for expert opinion in the media. He has appeared on various radio segments and been quoted in publications including The Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Australian, ABC News, Lawyers Weekly, Workplace Express, OHS Alert, SmartCompany and InTheBlack on workplace relations and WHS law issues.
Notes
*Competitor Exclusion – ACC Australia Partner’s may request that representative/s of a competitor organisation/s registered for the event be excluded, and ACC Australia reserves the right to make the final decision as to whether a registration is rejected. As a guide, a competitor organisation could be defined as a rival organisation of similar size to the host Corporate Partner, with an established practice, product or service in the area being showcased by the Corporate Partner’s at the event. Please provide a brief statement as to why you have deemed an organisation to be a competitor, in support of any request to ACC Australia to reject a registration.
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