Inside IR EP24: End of Year IR Wrap

Recorded 5 December 2024

In this not-to-be-missed final episode of InsideIR for 2024, your favourite IR team has done all the hard work for you, and pulled together a succinct summary of:

• the top 5 issues that shaped industrial relations in 2024, and
• our predictions on the top 5 IR issues that you will need to get ahead of for 2025.

In this bumper end-of-year edition, Rohan Doyle is accompanied by no less than 9 of his HSF IR colleagues from across the country.

Inside IR EP23: AI in the workplace - bargaining and more

Recorded 13 November 2024

In this episode of Inside IR, Natalie Gaspar and Adam Ray discuss the impact of generative AI on industrial relations and bargaining. They explore how AI technologies, particularly generative AI, are transforming workplaces by performing tasks that typically require human input, such as content creation and decision-making. The episode delves into the responses from Australian unions, including the ACTU's formal policy on AI, which emphasises the need for genuine consultation, transparency, and clearly defined responsibilities and liability. They also discuss the potential for AI to enhance job efficiency and the importance of training employees to use these technologies effectively. The conversation highlights the evolving landscape of industrial relations in the face of rapid technological advancements, the implications for job security and workplace management, and how AI-related claims might be approached in bargaining.

Safety Leadership Series 2024: Investigating and reflecting on incidents in a robust regulatory landscape

We discuss the trends in how organisations are responding to and reflecting on incidents and issues which give rise to legal, regulatory and reputational risk.

The Panel discuss the way in which organisations have adapted to the change in the regulatory, legal and risk landscape and how are organisations investigating, reflecting on and learning in the face of robust regulator and stakeholder interactions.

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Employment & IR Briefing Series: "Closing Loopholes" reforms, including the contentious right to disconnect amendments

In our first Employment & IR Briefing Series for 2024, the team discuss the second tranche of "Closing Loopholes" reforms, including the contentious right to disconnect amendments.

In this session, our expert panel dive into how the current Australian IR and workplace reforms are beginning to play out across the country – in particular regulated labour hire arrangement (same job same pay) orders, intractable bargaining, and engaging contingent workers and employees on fixed term contracts.

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