Webinar -"Collective bargaining under the Fair Work Legislation Amendment

"Collective bargaining under the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022: Challenges and Opportunities".

Chairperson

Dr. Jonathan Hamberger PSM

Secretary, Industrial Relations Society of NSW

Honorary Professor, Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong

Honorary Associate, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney

Speakers

Anna Booth - Director CoSolve Pty Ltd

Anna is an accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System. She is also an experienced facilitator and arbitrator. In 2020 she returned to her workplace relations consultancy, CoSolve, after nearly nine years as a Deputy President of the Fair Work Commission. While at the Commission, she established the Commission’s pioneering Cooperative Workplaces program and was its National Practice Leader.

Immediately prior to going to the Commission, Anna combined her role in CoSolve with non-executive directorships of industry superannuation-owned financial services companies, ME Bank and IFM. She was also the non-executive chair of the law firm Slater & Gordon Ltd. Anna came to these roles after a nearly 20-year career in the trade union movement including as National Secretary of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia and a Vice President of the ACTU. Partly concurrent with her trade union role, she was a board member of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, a member of the SOCOG (Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, and the board of the NRMA).

Luis Izzo - Managing Director - Sydney Workplace Relations, Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors

Luis oversees ABLA's Sydney Workplace Relations practice and has over 15 years’ experience practicing as a specialist employment and industrial relations lawyer. Luis’ recent personal advocacy success includes representation of ACCI and Business NSW in test case proceedings pertaining to overtime provisions for casuals and inserting new schedules into modern awards in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Luis’ 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, Luis 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 regularly recognised by peers and clients as an expert in this field and was named a leading practitioner in employment law for the 2022 Doyles' Guide.

Nick McIntosh - National Assistant Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union

Nick McIntosh has been the National Assistant Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) since 2018 and has recently been re-elected for another four-year term. In this role he has had responsibility for enterprise bargaining on behalf of the TWU with numerous employers and industry peak bodies. Prior to that he was the Assistant Secretary of the NSW Branch. Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (Hones) from Macquarie University

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