Upcoming events
Closing Loopholes – the final pieces in the puzzle
Join CER’s expert lawyers, for our end-of-year roundup on legislative changes impacting your workplace. We’ll cover essential updates, including new protections for workplace delegates under the Closing Loopholes amendments, the criminalisation of wage theft, updated criteria distinguishing contractors from employees, and guidelines for managing conduct during Christmas parties.
The Right to Disconnect
From August 26, 2024, a significant change in Australian employment law will come into effect, providing many employees with the "right to disconnect." Join us for a comprehensive webinar where we'll unpack what this change means for employers, and the workplace environment.
Privacy, complaints and conducting risk assessments
Attend this session to enhance your understanding and ensure compliance with your legal obligations with respect to record keeping and privacy of employee data. This webinar will provide an overview of records required to be kept and how personal information of employees may be used or disclosed.
Fixing your temporary contract and casual employment issues
Join our upcoming Q&A forum to navigate recent legislative changes affecting employment contracts. Revisions to fixed-term and casual contracts require careful consideration. We'll delve into why these changes are necessary and provide practical insights on implementing them. Martin Dunne will address key questions, so don't miss this opportunity to clarify your queries and stay compliant with the evolving legislation. Register now for expert guidance!
Reportable Conduct – Legal and Ethical considerations
This session is focused on providing practical guidance on complaints handling and identifying reportable allegations. Understand how concerning behaviour can become reportable conduct, what constitutes a reportable allegation and how to identify reportable conduct. We will provide a brief overview on how to identify and handle allegations and reporting obligations.
Performance Management - how to handle misconduct
This session will delve into strategies for supporting performance improvement, focusing on the development of Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) with clear objectives. By the end, attendees will acquire valuable skills to cultivate high performance, manage underperformance adeptly, and foster a positive work atmosphere.
Ill and injured workers - Management and obligations
This webinar offers comprehensive training on managing both short-term and long-term absences in the workforce, along with understanding the termination of employment process. By the end, attendees will possess the necessary knowledge and tools to ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations.
Respect@Work and Psychological Safety
Join us for an insightful webinar delving into the amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 and their impact on employer responsibilities regarding workplace sexual harassment, sex discrimination and victimisation. We will analyse changes to the Act and offer practical guidance on effectively preventing and addressing incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace.
Difficult conversations - mediating conflict at work
Join us for an enlightening webinar focused on enhancing your managerial skills! Elevate your organisational prowess with expert training designed to equip you with essential skills. Learn how to provide constructive feedback tailored to diverse personalities, navigate challenging dialogues with empathy and take fair management actions that align with legal and ethical considerations.
Conflict, complaints and behaviour management in Schools
This session will outline your obligations to employees when managing challenging student behaviour and addressing parent complaints.
Reportable Conduct
Uncover the essentials of reportable conduct in NSW, ACT and VIC. Gain insights into the reportable conduct framework, investigation thresholds and guiding principles. Learn a practical approach to investigations, including witness interviews and making findings. Attend to understand your responsibilities and reduce workplace allegation risks.
Navigating mental health in the workplace: Employer obligations
Learn top tips to ensure optimal workplace mental health with our upcoming webinar. Learn crucial insights on understanding and managing mental health, fostering a mentally healthy work environment and effectively handling the return-to-work process. Discover strategies for making reasonable adjustments, addressing performance concerns with empathy and navigating legal risks.
Finding solutions to fixed term employment challenges
This discussion will address the need for updated contracts, assessing exceptions' applicability and managing flexible work arrangement obligations under the new rules.
A practical guide to the underpayment of wages
This webinar addresses employer compliance obligations, encompassing record keeping, combating wage theft and underpayment, Fair Work Ombudsman enforcement, practical FWO engagement and illustrative case instances.
Flexibility at work under EAs and Awards
Learn how adopting best practices around Flexible Work Arrangements can bring greater workplace flexibility, attract skilled staff and improve job satisfaction and productivity while ensuring employees are better off overall. Discover the legal requirements and understand your obligations to your employees under EA’s and Awards.
Effective performance management
Unleash your organisation's potential with our performance management webinar! Join Katie and Sarah as they explore crucial topics such as underperformance, reasonable management actions, performance improvement strategies, warnings and termination processes. Gain valuable insights to optimise employee performance and foster a productive work environment.
Temporary and fixed term employment contracts
Important changes to temporary and fixed term employment contracts come into effect in December 2023 so now is the time for colleges and schools to make plans to accommodate the new restrictions. Join our panel discussion not only for a refresher of the details of these changes but also to ask questions regarding your organisation’s situation.
Workplace Investigations
This webinar provides essential guidance on conducting fair and effective workplace investigations, covering key topics such as the fundamentals, timing, types, responsible parties, planning, step-by-step process, evidence collection, analysis, findings, and report writing, while also highlighting common mistakes to avoid.
Effective feedback and difficult conversations
In this discussion CER’s Carlie Shales and Katie Cowley will explore why people avoid difficult conversations at work and the costs and risks that can result. The session provides practical advice on preparing for a difficult conversation as well as tips on how to keep things on track.
Creating a mentally healthy workplace
Attend to learn how to be proactive when it comes to your employees mental health and wellbeing. This informative and practical webinar will provide an opportunity to ask questions of Natalie Rouillon-Thomas and Sarah Kamel.
Sexual harassment and Respect@Work
This webinar will cover how changes to the law will impact employer obligations and detail how workplace sexual harassment, sex discrimination and victimisation are prevented and addressed.
Managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace
This presentation will help you identify psychosocial hazards in your workplace and discuss the new regulatory changes in NSW.
We will also touch upon the process involved in managing the hazards and risks and discuss the ways in which we can assist you and your organisation navigate this process. The changes to psychosocial regulations also come into effect in the Commonwealth jurisdiction on 1 April 2023.
Psychosocial hazards are aspects of work which have the potential to cause psychological or physical harm. It is crucial that employers identify and manage these hazards and risks in the workplace. This informative and practical webinar will provide an opportunity to ask questions of Natalie Rouillon-Thomas Employment Relations Specialist I Lawyer. You will also learn about:
The definition of psychosocial hazards with examples
What the regulatory changes mean to employers in NSW
A brief summary of the risk assessment process
Useful tools and resources
Event One
Have you thought about implementing better employment screening standards in your organisation, but are unsure of what checks are appropriate for you?