Our October HR Breakfast Club featured Anna Phillips and Riley Berry of BAL Lawyers tackling the topic of cybersecurity and privacy in the workplace. Riley highlighted key statistics arising from the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Small Business Survey published in July 2020. Most startling was the following: the ACSC receives, on average, one report [...]
In our latest HR Breakfast Club webinar, guest speaker Kieran Pender from the International Bar Association (IBA) spoke about recent developments in the workplace sexual harassment context. Kieran began by setting out the legal framework in Australia and outlined the evolution of employer liability for workplace harassment. He then highlighted several recent developments, notably several [...]
It seems that even a pandemic cannot dull the vexing issue of public servants expressing their political views. As much was evident in Victoria last month, with the state's deputy health officer counselled, albeit not sanctioned, for a tweet comparing COVID-19 to the arrival of Captain Cook. As the subsequent vociferous debate highlighted, there [...]
The Australian labour market is facing unprecedented times. The changes to our way of life and economy are coming thick and fast. I have found this article more difficult to write than most. Like all Australians I, too, continue to be bombarded with news of change as our country grapples to come to terms [...]
https://youtu.be/7etLnKJGAak CORONAVIRUS: Employment law answers for HR Managers with Gabrielle Sullivan.
Rebecca Richardson, Associate at BAL Lawyers, spoke about secret recordings in the workplace. In particular, secret recordings made by employees. Employees take secret recordings for a number of different reasons. Primarily we see employees doing this to ‘collect evidence’ for future litigation. The law in the ACT It is unlawful to record private conversations in [...]
