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"After the Dust Settles - Proposed Federal IR Reforms"

  • 25 Oct 2022
  • 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Kingston Reid Levl 20 - 1 Castlreagh Street

Registration

  • Fully financial member of irsnsw
    Guests included with this booking must be financial members of irsnsw

A Face to Face Session (with Zoom options)

"Since the election in May 2022 the proposed IR reform agenda is taking shape and the recent Job Summit revealed the areas of interest for the government, employers, unions and other interested parties.

Our panel of 3 speakers will explore these proposals in this face-to-face session (also available on Zoom) and a Q & A session will follow at the end of the panel presentations."

Convenor; 

Christa Lenard - Partner - Kingston Reid





Speakers

Peter Sams - IR Consultant and former Deputy President of Fair Work Commission

Since January 2021 – Peter Sams is the Principal Human Resources Consultant with PJ Sams Employment & IR Services.

Peter’s professional career highlights include:

  • Appointment as long-time Deputy President of the Fair Work Commission (retiring in Jan 2021)
  • Appointment as a member of the former NSW Industrial Commission and NSW industrial Relations Commission while a dual appointee to the former Australian Industrial Relations Commission
  • Secretary of the NSW Trades and Labour Council.

Peter is a regular media commentator on industrial relations matter and is a keenly sought presenter on IR developments by various professional associations and industry bodies including:

  • IRS NSW
  • Australian Labour and Employee Relations Association
  • Australian HR Institute
  • Australian Association of Workplace Investigators
  • LegalWise

Thomas Costa

Thomas is the Assistant Secretary – Unions NSW since Jan 2016 and is active in recent industrial matters and high-profile disputes in NSW, particularly in transport sector.

Prior to his current role, Thomas held Senior Legal Officer roles with the Rail Bus and Rail Union and the Australian Workers’ Union and worked as a solicitor with Slater & Gordon and with the HIV-AIDS NSW - Legal Centre.

Thomas is also an active IRS NSW Executive Committee and has present at our Annual Conference, webinar sessions and IRS’s Practitioners Professional Development Day (Please note - next on 10 March 2023 – watch our website), and is a Non-Executive Director of the Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme.

Luis Izzo

Managing Director - Sydney Workplace

Luis oversees ABLA's Sydney Workplace Relations practice and has over a decade’s experience practicing as a specialist employment and industrial relations lawyer acting for a broad range of employers across both the private and public sector.

His advocacy experience in State and Federal Courts and Tribunals is extensive. In addition to achieving successful outcomes for clients as an advocate in numerous unfair dismissal and industrial dispute arbitrations, he acted as one of the lead employer advocates in the 2014/2015 Fair Work Commission Annual Leave Test Case as well as the highly publicised 2016/2017 Penalty Rates Test Case. Following heavily contested hearings in both proceedings, Luis ultimately succeeded in securing a raft of amendments to modern awards in respect of both annual leave and weekend penalty rates.

Luis is the trusted advisor to a number of organisations when it comes to large scale industrial bargaining.  He has conducted numerous investigations for clients in relation to internal employment disputes and bullying and harassment matters and continues to be a lead litigator in the developing General Protections and bullying jurisdictions.

In addition to working in private practice, Luis has been seconded to the Australian Federal Police and the Fair Work Ombudsman, working on a variety of employment related litigation and prosecutions and is a member of the Law Society of NSW’s Employment Law Committee.

Please note

17:30 - Registration - Snacks and Drinks

18:00 - Panel Session + Q&A

19:15 - Networking

20:00 - Close of Event

  • Members and guests booking for the Zoom option will be sent the link 24 hrs before the event

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