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Join Madgwicks' Special Counsel Tim Greenall and Senior Associate Sasha Roberts explain the impact of COVID-19 on employment law.

Chaired by Tax Partner Philip Diviny, this session will cover:
-             What you need to know about the JobKeeper payment
-             New stand down powers under Fair Work
-             Variations to Modern Awards
-             Impact on Enterprise Agreements
-             Working from home – the new workplace

Please note this event has sold out - if you would like to receive a receive a recording of the live broadcast please contact ausevents@accglobal.com. 

The legal technology market is constantly expanding. How can you leverage this technology to optimise efficiencies, and improve collaboration within your legal teams and with your stakeholders?

Join Gilbert + Tobin’s market-leading innovation experts Caryn Sandler, Kim Lewis and Daniel Yim for a live webinar on the latest technology available to assist in-house legal teams.

This webinar will involve a deep dive into:

• matter and document management;
• workflow management and legal triage;
• expert/decision logic apps;
• document automation; and
• artificial intelligence.

The webinar will explore relevant case studies and demonstrate some of the technology which is currently available.

Tuesday 26 May 2020
1.00pm-2.00pm AEST
12.30pm-1.30pm ACST
11.00am-12.00pm AWST

If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.

The exodus of a large sector of the workforce from air-conditioned offices to their own lounge rooms has been one of the most significant and dramatic changes to the world at work in Australia. Yet the suddenness of the change has meant that many employers have not had the luxury of reviewing its work health and safety implications. Yet the transition has been longer than anticipated by many, and even after the Government relaxes restrictions, employers should expect that significant numbers of employees may not wish to (or need to) return to the office. 

In this Webinar we interview work health and safety guru, Sue Chennell, Director of Shared Risk & Safety, about what employers should be doing to ensure the health and safety of their home-workers.  We seek answers to your burning health and safety questions such as:

• what are the key health and safety risks in working from home?
• how should these risks be managed?
• is it good enough to ask an employee to complete a self-assessment form?
• do you really need to buy them an ergonomic chair?
• are there different standards for short term as opposed to long term home workers?
   

Directors are subject to key duties in carrying out their role. Knowing about those duties and how to effectively discharge them is at the heart of good corporate governance.  In this seminar we will consider the key statutory duties of directors and gain an understanding of the consequences of breaching those duties, by looking at how the court has dealt with particular cases in recent years.  

Edward Muston SC will also take a look into Directors personal liability in the following areas: taxation and superannuation debts, work health and safety law breaches, and environmental law breaches.

ACC Australia is a supporting partner of ALTACON

ALTACON established itself as the premier event in the Australian legaltech calendar, following the sell-out success of the inaugural ALTACON in 2019. Given the unprecedented situation with the COVID-19, ALTA is hosting ALTACON 2020 as a virtual event! 

ALTA are re-imagining the virtual conference to bring you a truly innovative, connected experience on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th May 2020.

ACC Australia is proud to be a supporting partner for ALTACON and we’re super excited about the opportunity this presents for in-house counsel to engage with leading local and international legal innovators, entrepreneurs and technologists.

The virtual ALTACON has three streams of content –  for law firms, in-house legal and legal tech.  The program features familiar formats such as rapid-fired Ted-style presentations, panels and demos plus plenty of opportunities for interactive discussion.

ALTACON is the best place for in-house counsel to:

• Explore the cutting edge of Aussie legal technology and talk directly to the entrepreneurs driving industry change
• Discover the best tech-stack for in-house counsel
• Get an insider’s perspective on using legal tech to support your team and boost their output
• Find out how in-house counsel are influencing the legal technology market and what’s next
• Hear how leading corporations are using legal tech to transform their legal operations
• Discover the latest thinking on innovation, entrepreneurship, culture

Your special ACC members price is $75 (ex GST) saving $20 off the standard price. To take up this offer register below and use the discount code VACC75

30 minute webinar series: The cold light of day – strategies to position your business for the future

The spread of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) poses many challenges but also opportunities for business around the globe.
 
This time represents a disruption without parallel in recent time, but leaders must rise above the daily news feed and bring focus to "Three Rs" - resilience, recovery and renewal for their businesses. 

Acknowledging the challenges in the days and weeks ahead - there is opportunity now to reshape strategy and activities for the coming months and years.

Join Baker McKenzie as they host two panel discussions, moderated by founding Partner of Citadel-MAGNUS, a former Business Editor of Sky News and Reporter with Channel 9’s Business Sunday Program, Helen McCombie.

These webinars will be open and interactive discussions, with attendees encouraged to submit questions to the panelists.

Webinar 2: Renewal

By implementing proactive and defensive measures explored in the first webinar, businesses will be well placed to move into the ‘renewal’ phase.

Topics in this webinar will include: 

• a forecast of equity capital markets and M&A trends over the next 18 months including the impact of FIRB’s temporary foreign investment changes; 
• transactional opportunities across industries and activities of opportunistic investors; and 
• practical tips and examples on shifting from a resilience mindset into offensive to ensure long term survival. 

If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.

30 minute webinar series: The cold light of day – strategies to position your business for the future

The spread of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) poses many challenges but also opportunities for business around the globe.
 
This time represents a disruption without parallel in recent time, but leaders must rise above the daily news feed and bring focus to "Three Rs" - resilience, recovery and renewal for their businesses. 

Acknowledging the challenges in the days and weeks ahead - there is opportunity now to reshape strategy and activities for the coming months and years.

Join Baker McKenzie as they host two panel discussions, moderated by founding Partner of Citadel-MAGNUS, a former Business Editor of Sky News and Reporter with Channel 9’s Business Sunday Program, Helen McCombie.

These webinars will be open and interactive discussions, with attendees encouraged to submit questions to the panelists.

Webinar 1: Resilience and Recovery

This discussion will focus on the trends we’re seeing in capital raising and preservation, recent activity in the debt market, and how businesses are activating defensive measures to position themselves for the future.

Other topics of discussion will include: 

• eligibility and impact of government stimulus and support packages; 
• evasive action that businesses are undertaking, and examples of how firms are making changes now to avoid formal insolvency procedures or potential takeovers in the long term; and 
• market movement and predictions for the coming months. 

If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.

One of the many concerns for internal counsel during the COVID-19 crisis is the increasing challenge of managing data security. From exploiting the increased number of employees who are now working from home, through to supply chain disruptions, cyber threat actors are capitalising on geographic and operational impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. You are invited to join us for a virtual roundtable discussion on the increased cyber security risks during this sustained crisis and what companies can do to mitigate the impact.

Cory Davie, Partner, Control Risks, will set the scene with a brief situation update of the COVID-19 global pandemic. She will be followed by Carla Liedtke, Principal, Control Risks, who will lead a discussion on current cyber-attack trends and the measures companies are putting in place to mitigate the increased risk. Attendee participation is encouraged and this is a great opportunity to share and learn from your peer group on the challenges you are facing as well as what is working for your organisation.

This event is sold out, please use the link below to register for the waitlist. 

Employers are increasingly faced with the challenges of keeping employees “safe” in terms of their mental health and also dealing with the consequences of employees’ mental health challenges in regard to performance and conduct.

With increased penalties in many jurisdictions and model legislation highlighting director and officer individual responsibility, the issues are more important than ever. In the current climate of vast numbers of employees working from home and in a heightened state of anxiety about world events and job security, employers face a very difficult task.

Join Piper Alderman's Erin McCarthy and their national employment relations team for webinar dealing with these issues and in particular:

The law:

• Work health and safety obligations to minimise or eliminate risks to mental health in the workplace;
• When and how the workplace extends to the home, and managing the unusual risks of remote working;
• Assessing capacity and when an employee may not be mentally “fit” for the inherent requirements of the job;
• The interplay between mental health and performance/misconduct concerns – what the Fair Work Commission has said about procedural fairness and mental health;
• Compensability of stress claims under the various state and territory workers compensation schemes; and
• Industrial manslaughter and deaths by suicide where there may be workplace risks to mental health

The practical issues:

• Signs to look out for that an employee may have compromised mental health
• Having difficult conversations with employees who have mental health issues or may be under significant stress and anxiety
• When you may be ‘on notice’ of a risk but not have recognised it;
• Managing mental health while employees are working remotely including domestic violence; and
• What will you point to as a measure implemented to manage mental health risks?

Businesses are operating in an increasingly complex and high stakes regulatory environment. With the ACCC’s role expanding and penalties increasing, scrutiny has never been more intense.  At the same time, many of the provisions of the ­Competition and Consumer Law Act require thought and some sophistication to ensure compliance. 

Join our competition experts Susan Jones and Jeremy Jose for a live webinar that will provide an update on current issues in competition law including:

• the ACCC’s enforcement activity and priorities;
• concerted practices (including information sharing, industry associations and pricing algorithms); and
• gun jumping.

This webinar will also provide you with some practical suggestions for assessing and mitigating competition law risk within your organisation.

If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.

NSW Members - this event will also be run as a face to face event later in the year.