Webinar On Demand - Employees Working from Home

1 CPD Point – Practice Management and Business Skills

When COVID hit, businesses across the country needed to rapidly adapt to allow for staff to work from the safety of their own homes. Now that the COVID crisis has passed and the isolation orders ended, instead of flocking back to the offices, many employees have expressed a preference to continue working from home.

This raises some important questions regarding the employers and employees duties and responsibilities when facilitating such an arrangement. In this webinar, Employees Working from Home, Katherine Hawes will help you gain an understanding of the key professional conduct issues and responsibilities outlined below for both employers and employees when it comes to working remotely in Australia.

Employer Responsibilities & Issues:

1. Duty of Care obligations
2. Data Security and Privacy
3. Intellectual Property
4. Communications
5. Work, Health and Safety (WHS)
6. Support and Resources
7. Performance Management

Employee Responsibilities & Issues:

1. Professional Conduct
2. Workspace Safety
3. Data Security and Privacy
4. Communication
5. Self-Management

This webinar is suitable for accountants, lawyers and other professional advisers as well as business proprietors and HR Managers. It is pitched at an intermediate level.

Continuing Professional Development

Legal CPD:

WA legal practitioners (QA Provider ID 29250)

1 CPD point, Competency Area 1 – Practice Management and Business Skills. To ensure you receive your CPD Points for this event, please provide us with your Legal Practice Board Practitioner ID during registration. Note: CPD Points are only uploaded to the Legal Practice Board after the Webinar On Demand is viewed. This is not an interactive activity.

Legal practitioners outside of WA

If you consider that this webinar satisfies your individual requirement, or is relevant to your immediate or long-term professional development needs, you may claim 0.5 CPD points for every 30 minutes of attendance and participation.

Accounting CPD:

1 CPD Point

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Presenter: Katherine Hawes
Principal, Digital Age Lawyers

Katherine is an experienced litigator. Not only is Katherine experienced but her training as a Barrister means that her Solicitor Advocate services come with a solid education background. Katherine has also holds three Master Degrees and two post-graduate diplomas in both business and the law. She is currently on track to be admitted to the New York Bar Association next February.

Her natural talent, intellect and humour combine to attract and retain people to her media and speaking engagements as she creatively steers people to success.

Katherine‘s belief that anything‘s possible paves the way for creative thinking for an innovative application of the law to your matter and both these aspects require a boldness to have fun and uncover what you do not know!