Webinar On Demand - Employment Law Reform and How it Affects You

1 CPD Point – Substantive Law

The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 (“Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act”) has recently become law and with the final stages of the amendments now nearly completely phased in. This represents the biggest reform to employment law since the introduction of the Fair Work Act back in 2009.

The new law represents a significant change to several important aspects of employment law and it is vital that employers and their advisers consider these changes in the context of their own workplace practices and arrangements.

In this Webinar, Employment Law Reform and How it Affects You, Kathryn Dent, from HWL Ebsworth Lawyers, will summarise the recent changes under the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act reform. Particularly, Kathryn will address:

• Prohibitions on pay secrecy clauses and fixed term contracts;
• Flexible work arrangements;
• Dispute procedure for sexual harassment and flexible work arrangements;
• Enterprise bargaining including process, multi-enterprise agreements and the BOOT; and
• Zombie agreements.

Employers and their advisers who fail to gain an understanding of the scope of these changes and how they will be applied in practice may find themselves with existing employment practices contrary to the new law and exposed to financial penalties for contraventions.

This Webinar is suitable for employers, lawyers, accountants and other professional advisers and is pitched at an intermediate level. It is ideal for any professional looking to bring themselves up to date with the new employment law landscape.

Legal CPD:

WA legal practitioners (QA Provider ID 29250)

1 CPD point, Competency Area 4 – Substantive Law. 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.

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Presenter Kathryn Dent
Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers

Kathryn has had extensive experience as a workplace relations and safety lawyer for in excess of 25 years advising and representing employers across a range of industries including education, insurance, construction, aged care and retirement living, real estate and property, hospitality, manufacturing and local government in non-litigious as well as litigious employment and safety law matters. A lawyer who prides herself on her accessibility, responsiveness and pragmatic approach in partnering with clients has seen Kathryn regularly engaged not only to advise and represent employers but to investigate and mediate workplace disputes and to deliver corporate training across all levels of an organisation including to Boards and senior executives. Kathryn also enjoys regularly presenting at seminars and conferences and conducting Board evaluations.

Kathryn is a Law Society Accredited Specialist in the area of Employment and Industrial Law. She holds a Masters of Labour Law and Relations, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and a Certified Professional Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (CAHRI). Kathryn has also completed the “Leading Professional Service Firms” executive education program run by Harvard Business School.