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HR Day 2024 | Positive Duties to Staff

Event Recording

3 June 2024

Topic	People & Culture
Type	Event Recording
CPD	0.5 - Practice Management and Business Skills
	0.5 - Substantive Law

Pricing	AUD $79
Full Member	AUD $39.50
Online Member	AUD $39.50
Affiliate	AUD $39.50
Associate Member	AUD $39.50

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HR Day 2024 | Positive Duties to Staff

ALPMA’s annual HR Day held in Melbourne in May 2024 is now available for those who were unable to attend in person.

Positive Duties to Staff contains two of the 5 sessions recorded on the day. These sessions are available individually or as a bundle. All sessions recorded on the day, can be found here.

Our Positive Duties to Staff | Moving from Reactive to Proactive in Eliminating Risk
- Positive obligations to our staff members
- What a hazard might look like, what risk it poses to our workers’ safety and how we can implement control measures to protect people at work
- A closer look at a key risk in the workplace: sexual harassment and sex discrimination

Let’s Bench the Bar
Alcohol and drugs - effects on law students and young lawyers.
- A background into substance abuse within the legal sector
- Why does alcoholism and drug abuse occur within the legal sector?
- What has the legal sector done to combat this?
- What does my campaign propose to do?
- What effects will my campaign have?

Who will benefit from this session:
Practice Managers, People & Culture, HR and Recruitment, CEOs, Senior Leaders in law firms.

Provided by

Liz Aitken

Partner, National Head of Workplace Relations & Safety at SLF Lawyers

Liz is an award-winning workplace relations lawyer bringing knowledge, experience and passion to her work.

With a track record of delivering strong client-focused results, Liz’s drive and dynamism make her sought-after as an HR business partner and legal advisor. Her talent is turning workforce challenges into opportunities for positive cultural change, increased productivity and advancement of business goals.

Liz was previously a partner at a national mid-tier law firm. She has held a range of executive and board positions for professional associations, including Victorian Women Lawyers and the Law Institute of Victoria’s Workplace Relations Section.

In 2015, Liz was named Young Gun of the Year at the Australian Women in Law Awards.

In 2018, she was recognised by the Australian Financial Review as the youngest partner appointed among participating Australian law firms.

Liz regularly speaks at professional conferences and events – headlining alongside business, political and government leaders like Lord Mayor Sally Capp, Lee Lin Chin and Commissioner Kate Jenkins – as well as featuring in major news publications.

Luke Byrnes

Law Graduate at Thomson Geer

Luke is a recent graduate from the University of Melbourne where he completed both Bachelor of Commerce and Juris Doctor degrees. Throughout his law studies he worked at boutique commercial law firm, Nicholas O’Donohue and Co.

He is a current Law Graduate at national mid-tier commercial law firm, Thomson Geer, where he is currently rotating through the Disputes – Insolvency team. He is a published author in the Insolvency Law Journal and recently presented at the National Wellness for Forum.