Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated.
Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
Mallesons senior consultant Brett Feltham will discuss how employers can:
- reduce discrimination risks when managing absence, injury and incapacity;
- avoid breaching unfair dismissal, general protections and privacy obligations;
- safely manage and monitor remote workers' absence and attendance;
- request independent examinations and other medical information;
- respond to questionable medical certificates; and more.
About the presenter:
Based in Mallesons' Sydney practice, Brett Feltham is an accredited specialist in employment and industrial relations law, with more than 25 years' experience advising on employment, workplace relations, discrimination and workplace health and safety issues.
As the co-chair of the Law Society of NSW's Employment Law Committee, Brett has a leading role in lobbying and advocating on employment issues on behalf of the legal profession and more generally.
Brett has delivered previous webinars for HR Daily on topics including psychosocial hazards; flexible work requests; restructures and redundancies; fixed-term contracts; Respect@Work; and the 'HR hot spots' series since 2018.