From August, employees will have a legislated right to disconnect from work. Understand what this means for your organisation by watching this HR Daily Premium webcast.
In this session, King & Wood Mallesons' senior consultant Brett Feltham will cover:
- who has a right to disconnect;
- what the new right entails;
- when a refusal to be contacted will be reasonable;
- policy and procedure implications;
- dispute resolution;
- ramifications of non-compliance; and
- best-practice management tips.
Watching this webcast will count as 0.5 CPD hours.
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About the presenter:
King & Wood Mallesons senior consultant Brett Feltham is a Law Society of New South Wales accredited specialist with more than 25 years' experience advising on employment, workplace relations, discrimination and workplace health and safety issues.
He regularly advises clients on complex and strategic employment matters, including C-suite level terminations. He also has particular expertise in relation to cross-border employment arrangements, and all aspects of executive remuneration and employee equity and cash incentive arrangements.
Brett is the Co-Chair of the Law Society of NSW's Employment Law Committee and 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 flexible work requests, psychological injury risks, restructures and redundancies, fixed-term contracts, and the 'HR hot spots' series since 2018.