The Conference
FAIRER FOR WHO? How the new industrial relations laws are impacting on Australian workplaces
About the Workforce Conference
Workforce, published by Thomson Reuters, is Australia’s longest established specialist source for industrial relations news. It has provided reliable and independent coverage of issues affecting IR and HR professionals for 35 years. The Workforce Annual Conference, now in its eighth year, is the only IR conference put together by the specialist journalists who report on the issues every day of the week. Each year, the Workforce Conference attracts high-level industrial relations practitioners from across the country. These include representatives from Top 500 corporations, major public sector agencies at state and federal level, HR/IR consultancies, unions, and specialist legal practitioners.
Why attend
- Discover what you need to do before January 1, 2010 to comply with a raft of new legal obligations, including updating all workplace agreements to comply with the National Employment Standards;
- Understand under what circumstances unions will be entitled to enter workplaces and which employment records they will have access to;
- Hear about innovative strategies being used during the financial downturn to avoid redundancies and lay-offs;
- Understand your obligations under the Fair Work Act and new good faith bargaining laws;
- Learn how to avoid an unfair dismissal claim under the new rules; and
- Find out how to effectively manage your interaction with unions.
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