Are you confident in your ability to conduct a flawless workplace investigation? If not, seize this chance to learn best practice processes and invaluable tips for steering clear of common pitfalls. Take the hour to ensure you don’t make a problem even worse.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
Chair
Melissa Johnston, Partner, McVeagh Flemming
Learning Objective:
- Learn insightful tips and traps to conduct and processes of conducting workplace investigations
9.30am to 10.30am Workplace Investigations: Best Practice Processes and Pitfalls
- Best practice processes: when, who and how
- External vs internal investigation: pros and cons
- Stages of the investigation
- Communicating the outcome
- Common pitfalls
Presented by Helen Pryde, Special Counsel, Buddle Findlay
Presenters
Melissa Johnston, Partner, McVeagh Flemming
Melissa has worked for both employers and employees on a range of employment issues including contentious and non-contentious matters. She advises employers on significant restructures, redundancies, personal grievances, mediations, employment documentation, employee entitlements and undertake and advise on employment investigations. Melissa advises employees on matters including: disciplinary and performance issues; redundancies; personal grievances and employment documentation. Her clients tell her that she is approachable, and provides pragmatic and practical advice. In 2018, Melissa was a recommended practitioner in the Legal 500. In 2019, she was named as a Rising Star in the Legal 500.
Helen Pryde, Special Counsel, Buddle Findlay
Helen has expertise across all legal issues relating to health and safety and employment, including WorkSafe investigations and prosecutions, performance management, disciplinary matters and processes (with a particular expertise where issues may overlap with criminal law), restructuring and redundancy, restraints of trade, medical incapacity, and dealing with personal grievances. Helen has significant dispute resolution experience and regularly represents clients at mediation and in court. She is also an accredited mediator and undertakes independent investigations into workplace issues.
This seminar is part of a series
Employment Law Series 2024
In this in-depth 5-part employment law series you will explore the issues concerning the impact of social media and AI on the workplace and employment relations concerns, plus the employer’s obligations to deal with mental health in the workplace. Get the latest on Restraint of Trade Agreements including drafting tips and enforcement. Gain valuable insights in running of workplace investigations and drafting know how on employment agreements to meet an employer’s statutory obligations.
Description
Attend the full series and earn 5 CPD hours
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
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