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Piper Alderman
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC Australia“Wage theft” is a polarising topic that has entered the popular discourse. On the one hand, unions vehemently defend their members’ right to be paid according to award minimums – they claim that in some industries it’s part of the business model, and it must be stopped. On the other hand, business groups claim that awards are complex and that where underpayments occur it is more often than not because of inadvertent, innocent mistake.
This seminar will explore how we have got here, canvas the upcoming changes being brought in by the Closing Loopholes Act, and set out some practical, proactive steps to improve governance frameworks, and ensure wage compliance in this ever tightening industrial compliance and enforcement landscape.
Our team will cover:
- The difference between wage theft and other underpayments
- “Safe Harbour” from wage theft prosecution for making self-disclosures to the Fair Work Ombudsman
- What a wage compliance investigation looks like, including discussing legal professional privilege, and developing legal interpretations of awards and enterprise agreements
- Set out the “3 Pillars” of wage compliance good governance
This session will be relevant for in house legal counsel, risk and compliance officers, and executive board members.
Piper Alderman’s ‘Beat the Clock’ offers you the opportunity to secure 4 CPD points in 4 hours. Our complimentary national program covers all three mandatory areas of law as well as one substantive law topic.
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Speakers
Emily Haar, Partner, Piper Alderman
Emily supports organisations by providing timely legal advice through every stage of employment, including hiring, managing the workforce, and resolving disputes.
She provides advice to employers from various industries in relation to all aspects of employment, industrial relations, work health and safety, and workers compensation law.
Emily is a co-author of “Independent Contractors: a practical guide” with Professor Andrew Stewart and other contributors from Piper Alderman, published by CCH.
She has been an editor of the University of Adelaide Law Review and a member of the South Australian Law Reform Institute.
Emily hosts Piper Alderman’s podcast, Employment Law for the Time Poor, updating listeners on complicated legal issues in manageable portions.
Erin McCarthy, Partner, Piper Alderman
Erin has over fifteen years’ experience in providing advice to employers and employer associations on all aspects of occupational health and safety, employment and industrial relations law as well as delivering essential information seminars and training workshops on key employment issues.
Erin has extensive experience providing advice in relation to performance management, misconduct investigations and unfair dismissal claims, bullying, discrimination and harassment matters and occupational health and safety issues including risk management and policy development.
In particular, Erin has been involved in numerous enterprise bargaining processes for large organisations across industry sectors, supporting clients in the planning, negotiation and implementation stages of the process.
Joseph Hyde, Associate, Piper Alderman
Joseph is an employment lawyer working with South Australian and national businesses, and over a broad practice ranging from industrial relations, individual applications (unfair dismissal, general protections etc.), compliance and enforcement, and transactional.
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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