Surviving the Silly Season: Managing Workplace Risks During the Festive Period
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Surviving the Silly Season: Managing Workplace Risks During the Festive Period
The lead-up to Christmas is one of the busiest and most challenging times of the year for retail employers. Increased trading demands, seasonal recruitment, annual leave requests, workplace celebrations and heightened employee stress can create a range of workplace relations and compliance risks.
Join the ARC Legal and Workplace Relations team for a practical webinar exploring the key employment and workplace issues that arise during the festive season and how employers can manage them effectively.
Key topics include:
- Setting expectations for appropriate conduct at Christmas parties and work functions
- Managing alcohol-related risks and employer responsibilities
- Dealing with misconduct arising from festive celebrations
- Navigating annual shutdowns, public holidays and leave requests
- Managing absenteeism and attendance issues during peak trading periods
- Seasonal workers, casual employees and rostering considerations
- Tips for maintaining compliance while supporting employee wellbeing during a busy time of year
Whether you’re preparing for a staff Christmas party, managing peak season staffing pressures, or planning for holiday leave arrangements, this webinar will provide practical guidance to help you navigate the festive season with confidence.
Webinar speakers
Amy Lynes
Senior workplace relations consultant
ARC Legal
Remy Atkinson
Lawyer
ARC Legal
Mabel Tu
Workplace relations consultant
ARC Legal
Webinar speakers
Amy Lynes
Senior workplace relations consultant
ARC Legal
Amy Lynes
Amy Lynes is the Senior Workplace Relations Consultant with the National Retail Association, a not-for-profit organisation that represents the interests of retailers and quick service restaurants across Australia.
Amy is passionate about authentic leadership, and empowering others to reach their potential and achieve their goals. As an experienced people leader, Amy has spent over decade leading Human Resources teams and managing complex business projects. Amy’s broad range of expertise spans the entire people experience; from recruitment to learning and development, strategic planning to industrial relations, work health and safety to employee engagement, Amy is dedicated to helping organisations leverage their people to drive them to success.
Remy Atkinson
Lawyer
ARC Legal
Remy Atkinson
Remy is an employment lawyer with experience advising small, medium and large businesses across a broad range of industries on workplace relations and compliance matters.
Remy is committed to delivering clear, timely and pragmatic advice on workplace compliance, employee management and dispute resolution. She focuses on providing guidance that supports clients to achieve commercially viable outcomes, while meeting their legal obligations.
Mabel Tu
Workplace relations consultant
ARC Legal
Mabel Tu
Mabel has spent over a decade working as a trusted HR advisor for businesses across the retail, higher education and aged care sectors. She has significant experience advising people leaders on a range of employee relations and compliance matters.
Having worked in generalist HR roles throughout her career, Mabel's expertise spans across the entire employee lifecycle. She has an interest in employment regulations and assisting clients to solve workplace issues through a timely and practical approach.
When she is away from the office, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, doing yoga, or watching a movie or musical.Webinar speaker(s)
Lindsay Carroll
Chief Legal & Industrial Relations Officer
Australian Retail Council
About Lindsay
Fleur leads the Industry Affairs portfolio for ARC which encompasses policy and advocacy, media, marketing, events and partnerships. Fleur has worked as an executive leader in government, media, marketing industries and prior to joining the ARA ran the award-winning Launch Group agency which was responsible government and investor relations, advocacy and media management for many leading Australian brands and public entities.
With a rich background in technology and innovation, she is a former Director of TechSydney, a founding team member of StartupAUS (now Tech Council Australia) a founding director of TEDxSydney and founder and producer the Nine Network’s Entrepreneurs TV show. Fleur is author of the business book The Business of Being You.
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