Successful mediation requires mastering key tips and pitfalls in your preparation, ensuring a specific desired outcome.

Presenters

Mr. Joshua Kimpton, Senior Associate, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Joshua is an employment, health and safety, and immigration law expert, with broad experience in advisory and contentious matters. He advises on all aspects of the law involving workers. He is passionate about people and takes the time to get to know his clients – what they need and how they operate. Joshua recognises that every business is different and likes to work alongside his clients to problem solve and help achieve desired outcomes. As a trusted adviser to many organisations, Joshua provides clear, accurate, and commercially pragmatic legal advice to support the needs of his clients. Joshua acts for clients in both the public and private sector. He has particular experience in the financial services, public transport, infrastructure, aged care, horticulture, and health sectors. He advises clients on a range of different employment matters, including restraints of trade and protection of confidential information, performance and disciplinary processes, medical incapacity processes, workplace bullying and discrimination claims, restructuring and redundancy, and Holidays Act compliance. He is also experienced with industrial relations and collective bargaining matters. Joshua is regularly involved in the negotiation and settlement of employment disputes and has a wealth of experience in mediation and litigation of employment matters.

Employment Law Series

In this in-depth 5-part employment law series you will learn all you need about how to prepare for mediation, including key tips and common traps, the current position regarding a contractor vs employee. Recent decisions and drafting tips on restraint of trade and non-solicitation clauses. The cross over of employment and immigration law and finally predictions on mental health in the workplace.