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• IRSQ - 2025 Annual Breakfast

  • When
    11 Feb 2025
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    7:15 AM - 8:45 AM
  • Location
    Tattersall's Club, 215 Queen Street, Brisbane City

  

  
  

  Working for Fairer Workplaces' calls on workplaces to unhold standards so that workers receive their entitlements and employers operate on a level playing field. 

  The guest speaker, Anna Booth, Fair Work Ombusdman, will provide key insights on how the Office of the Fair Work Ombusdman (FWO) is working to achieve this vision through:

  • Partnering with the workplace community to build capacity to crate and maintain fairer workplaces.
  • Taking a strategic approach to the FWO's services and interventions, and 
  • Ensuring a consistent and reasonable approach to compliance and enforcement.

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• IRSWA - Writing and Presenting Workplace Investigation Reports

  • When
    27 Feb 2025
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    9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Level 8, Exchange Tower - 2 The Esplanade, (Entrance off Sherwood Court), Perth WA

  

  
  

  
  

  Workplace Investigation Reports

  A collaboration between The Piddington Society and the Industrial Relations Society of WA , the Investigations Workshop takes you through the key issues of workplace investigations from before they start through to making findings.

  A full-day event across seven core areas, you will hear from legal, investigatory and HR experts to develop your foundational skills and understanding in this growing area of practice. The program covers identification of problems worth investigating, preparation of starting an investigation, drafting allegations, interviewing skills, gathering and assessing evidence, drafting final reports and ethical issues.

  The Workshop is for lawyers, investigators, industrials relations practitioners, HR professionals and others involved in workplace investigations.

  Opening address: The perspective of the Fair Work Commission when dismissals following an investigation end up in the Commission.

  Speakers: Deputy President Peter O'Keeffe (Fair Work Commission)

  Identifying, designing and planning a trauma-informed investigations

  Speaker: Philippa Lonie (Green Shoots)

  Gathering and assessing evidence, natural justice and interview skills

  Speakers: Sarah McLeod (Modern Legal), Rebecca Tasseff (RTL Consulting)

  Ethical dilemmas

  Speakers: Commissioner Toni Emmanuel (WA Industrial Relations Commission) and Heather Millar (Francis Burt Chambers)

  Representing & supporting employees in the investigation process

  Speaker: Mark Elliott (Independent Education Union)

  Writing investigation reports

  Speaker: Olga Klimczak (Herbert Smith Freehills)

  Operationalising investigation outcomes

  Speakers: Tom Klaassen (Rio Tinto)

  More sessions and speakers to be announced.

  Attendees will be eligible for up to six CPD points.

  Ticket prices:

  • Members: $490
  • Non-members $540

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  Note:

  Practitioner ID numbers are issued by the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia. Information from the Board is available here. We require these to issue CPD certificates. If you do not provide us with one then we may contact you following the event.

  
  

  Proceeds from this event will go toward supporting funding Piddington's access to justice projects. These are: the Piddington PLT Fund, which supports the community legal centres (CLCs) that host Piddington PLT graduates to complete their hours required for admission; the Piddington Justice Fund for CLCs, to cover costs that they otherwise cannot meet; and, Kaartdijin, our First Nations Legal Education Fund. Thanks to your attendance, engagement and support, we are able to make annual contributions of more than $50,000 to the community through these projects.

  
  

  For queries and further details, email irsociety@gmail.com

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