Fourth Annual Industrial Relations Symposium

The industrial relations challenges facing Australian businesses continue to grow. It is vital that HR managers and legal advisers are across the multitude of developments in the IR space and how to meet these challenges head-on. This year’s conference provides an up-to-the-minute review of the key industrial relations issues facing organisations, including the future of casual employment, enterprise bargaining agreements, and workplace investigations.

The Changing Employment Landscape

• Casual Employment: The Beginning of the End?

• Big Brother in the Workplace: Out of Hours Conduct in the Spotlight

• Labour Hire: The Future of Temporary, Accessible Labour

Managing Industrial Action

• Managing Protected Industrial Action: I’ve Got The Notice, What Now?

• Unprotected Industrial Action: Dealing with Industrial Sabotage and other Hand Grenades

Enterprise Agreements and Underpayments

• Getting from A to Z: The Road to Making an Enterprise Agreement

• It’s Not You, It’s Me: Breaking Up With Your Enterprise Agreement

• Wage Theft and Underpayments: Are You at Risk?

Workplace Investigations

• Workplace Investigations: Dotting the “i’s” and Crossing the “t’s”