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• IRSV/ALERA Advocacy Series

  • Start
    17 July 2024
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  • End
    30 October 2024
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Webinar

  

  IRSV (Industrial Relations Society of Victoria) are delighted to invite all IRS members to their Advocacy Webinar series. 

  
  

  The first seminar focuses on Written Advocacy

  In the modern area, written submissions will most often be your first and last opportunity to persuade. In this seminar you will be provided some tips and tricks about how to improve your written work from some of our favourite legal writers. You will also obtain a perspective from a longstanding consumer of written advocacy, his Honour Judge Karl Blake.

  This seminar is the first of three seminars focusing on advocacy skills (go to this link for the series flyer).

  The presenters:

  His Honour Judge Karl Blake
  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia

  Siobhan Kelly
  List A Barristers, Victorian Bar

  Andrew Pollock
  List G Barristers, Victorian Bar

  Chair: James Farrugia (IRSV Committee member and solicitor, VGSO)

  This online seminar is complimentary to IRSNSW members who will be sent a booking link by separate email. Please contact membership@irsnsw.org.au for the ALERA Affiliate code to register if you did not receive the email.

  Non-Members registration - $120.00

  A meeting link will be sent to attendees prior to the seminar.

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• 2024 “Meet the Commission” Event

  • When
    19 September 2024
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Industrial Court of NSW, 44 Phillip Street, Sydney.
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  An invitation from the President to all IRSNSW Members

  The Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales, (IRSNSW) together with Honourable Justice Taylor invites members of the IRSNSW to attend the annual “Meet the Commission” evening, to be held this year at the Industrial Court of NSW, 44 Phillip Street, Sydney.

  
  

  While traditionally hosted by the Fair Work Commission, the commencement of the Industrial Court of NSW, provides us a unique opportunity for His Honour, together with Justices Chin and Paingakulam to welcome members to Phillip Street for an evening with members of the Fair Work Commission and the NSW Industrial Relations Commission. 

  RSVP  10th September

  NB Entrance to Venue: 44 Phillip Street, Sydney (no entry on Bridge Street), members must bring a printout or photo of their registration confirmation email to gain entry

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• New workplace delegate and health and safety representative rights

  • When
    26 September 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Webinar

  

  New workplace delegate and health and safety representative rights

  When: 26 September 2024
  Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm
  Where: Online webinar

  There have been changes to workplace delegates’ rights as part of the Closing Loopholes amendments to the Fair Work Act. Similarly, the Queensland Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act recently made changes to the powers and functions of Health and Safety Representatives. In many workplaces, these are the same person or people.

  To avoid unnecessary disputes and support collaborative and harmonious workplaces, it is important that there is a shared understanding and expectation regarding the interaction between delegates, officials, health and safety representatives, health and safety committees and the workplace. This seminar explores the new rights, powers and functions of these roles and the responsibility and obligations of workplaces in the Queensland and federal context.

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  Troy Spence LLB (Hons)
  Barrister-at-Law
  Inns of Court

  
  

  
  

  
  

  This session is complimentary for IRSQ members and members of State and Territory IR Societies. Members will receive the ALERA Affiliate code to register, by separate email

  Non-members, attendance is $40.00.
  Registrations close Monday, 23 September 2024

  Register now and secure your spot for this insightful seminar!

  
  

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• Newcastle Branch | Annual Conference

  • When
    25 October 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Fort Scratchley, Newcastle
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  IRS Newcastle Branch

  Annual Conference

  Date: Friday 25 October 2024

  Time: 8.00am - 5.00pm

  Venue: Fort Scratchley, Newcastle

  INTRODUCING OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  Deputy President Saunders, Fair Work Commission

  
  

  Deputy President Saunders has been a member of the Fair Work Commission for 9 years. Prior to his appointment, Deputy President Saunders was a solicitor and then a barrister specialising in employment law and industrial relations for a combined period of about 18 years. DP Saunders will speak on the new Fair Work Commission jurisdiction relating to (a) unfair contracts for independent contractors and (b) unfair dismissal for employee like workers and road transport contractors”

  Mark Bray, Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle

  
  

  Mark Bray held the Foundation Chair in Employment Studies at the University of Newcastle from January 1997 until his retirement in early 2021, when he was appointed Emeritus Professor. During that time, he served almost continually on the Newcastle Branch Committee of the Industrial Relations Society and acted as President for a two-year period in 2002-2003. He has continued to research and publish since his retirement, exploring long-term trends in collective bargaining, workplace cooperation and the role of the Fair Work Commission in Australia.

  Senator Barbara Pocock, Greens Senator for South Australia

  
  

  Barbara Pocock grew up on a mallee farm in South Australia. She is an economist and Emeritus Professor who has spent her life fighting for the rights of working people, women and low-income workers. She established and led the Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia until 2014 and was awarded an AM for services to industrial relations research and social justice in 2010. She has written many books and articles, worked in shearing sheds, on farms, in universities, in government and as a mother.

  Barbara became a South Australian Senator for the Greens in 2022 and is currently the Greens spokesperson for Finance, Employment and Public Sector portfolios. Additionally, Barbara has recently chaired a Senate Select Committee looking at work and care in Australia which shows the need for a new 21st century social contract, one that creates a practical right to care alongside the right to work.

  She is passionate about action on climate change and creating a sustainable future for future generations – in a world of greater economic justice.

  Sophie Costsis, Minister for  Industrial Relations and Minister for Work Health and Safety

  
  

  Sophie Cotsis was born at Canterbury Hospital and attended Canterbury South Public, Kingsgrove Public and Kingsgrove High Schools. Ms Cotsis graduated from Macquarie University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts and the University of Technology, Sydney in 2001 with a Master of Legal Studies. Ms Cotsis has a range of employment experience in both the public and private sectors, including working at Sydney Airport while a student at university. 

  Ms Cotsis has been an active part of the many diverse multicultural communities that are found throughout NSW for many years and has a proud history of being involved in many community campaigns and causes.

  Ms Cotsis first entered NSW Parliament as a Member of the Legislative Council in September 2010, and served as a member of the Shadow Cabinet since 2011. Ms Cotsis has played key roles in the establishment of the Inquiry into Affordable, Social and Public Housing and the Inquiry into Elder Abuse.

  Brent Ferguson, Head of National Workplace Relations at Ai Group

  
  

  Brent is Ai Group's Head of National Workplace Relations Policy, leading a team of workplace relations policy and advocacy professionals in representing Ai Group members in workplace relations policy matters. This includes representations to Government and Opposition parties, submissions to numerous inquiries, major cases in the FWC and Courts, and influencing the public debate. 

  Brent is a solicitor with around 20 years’ experience. In his current roles as Director - Major Cases, Workplace Relations Advocacy & Policy and as a Legal Practitioner Director at Ai Group Workplace Lawyers, Brent has been involved in a wide range of workplace developments and reforms.

  The Hon. Justice Ingmar Taylor, President of NSW Industrial Relations Commission

  
  

  The Hon. Justice Ingmar Taylor was sworn in as President of the Industrial Relations Commission and a Justice of the Industrial Court by the Chief Justice of NSW in a private ceremony on 1 July 2024.

  Justice Taylor holds the qualifications of BA, LLB (University of Adelaide) and LLM (University of Sydney). His honour was admitted to practice as a solicitor in New South Wales in 1990, as a barrister in 1997, and appointed Senior Counsel in 2012. Before his appointment his Honour was nationally recognised as a preeminent counsel in industrial law and work health and safety.

  Before being appointed to the Bench, his honour held several leadership roles, including Treasurer and Executive member of the NSW Bar Council, Director of the Law Council of Australia and the NSW Bar Association, Chair of a Professional Conduct Committee of the NSW Bar Association and Editor of the NSW Bar’s journal, Bar News.  He was also Editor of the Industrial Reports. He was a founding director of Greenway Chambers, Chair of the Industrial Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia, Director and later Chair of the Association for Children with a Disability NSW, and a lecturer for a Masters of Law Course on the law of registered organisations for the University of Sydney. 

  ...and more to be announced!

  For any enquiries, please email newcastle@irsnsw.org.au

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