What changes in employment law could reshape the advice you give your clients in 2027?

Employment law continues to evolve, with legislative reform, emerging workplace issues and changing legal obligations creating new challenges for employers and those who advise them. Staying across these developments is essential to providing timely, practical advice and helping clients navigate their responsibilities with confidence.

Join Brett Feltham, Senior Consultant, Mallesons for a practical Lunch and Learn exploring major employment law developments and reforms affecting Australian workplaces. The session will highlight key changes, emerging issues and their implications for legal practice, with topics confirmed closer to the event to reflect the evolving employment law landscape.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Identify significant employment law developments and proposed reforms.
• Understand the potential implications of emerging changes for employers and employees.
• Recognise key issues to consider when advising clients on workplace obligations.
• Apply current legal developments to practical employment law scenarios.

At the end of this live webinar, you will earn 1 CPD point.

Brett Feltham
Senior Consultant, Mallesons

Brett is a senior consultant in Mallesons' Employee Relations & Safety team.  Brett has a broad range of experience gained from assisting leading Australian and global companies over 25 years of practice in relation to all employment, workplace relations, discrimination and workplace health and safety issues. 

Brett’s practice includes providing all of the usual employment and workplace relations, discrimination and work health and safety assistance to clients, from both an advisory and contentious perspective, and throughout the employment lifecycle.  He regularly advises clients on complex and strategic employment matters, including C-suite level terminations.  Brett also has considerable experience and expertise in relation to cross-border employment arrangements and the employment and securities law 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 is one of a limited number of Law Society of NSW Accredited Specialists in Employment and Industrial Relations Law, also sitting on the relevant accreditation committee.

Prior to commencing at Mallesons, Brett was a partner at two leading independent Australian firms, a partner at a global law firm, and led the client facing workplace relations team at a Big 4 professional services firm.

This live webinar is ideal for junior lawyers, graduates, paralegals, and legal support professionals seeking a solid foundation in estate planning and wills practice. It’s also valuable for practitioners transitioning into estate or succession planning, or those looking to refresh their knowledge on testamentary trusts, superannuation, incapacity issues, and will challenges—helping them provide clear, confident, and practical advice to clients.

This webinar is produced in NSW and features a NSW-based educator.  

The time listed for this course is Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). Please take note of any time differences if you are registering from QLD, WA, SA, NT or from outside Australia. 

The course complies with the mandatory requirements of professional skills (0.5 points) and substantive law (0.5 points).  

If you intend to claim CPD units for this educational activity, please note that CPD activities are not accredited by the Law Society of NSW or any other equivalent local authority, with the exception of Western Australia. If you hold a practising certificate in a state or territory other than Western Australia and this educational activity extends your knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to your practice needs or professional development, then you should claim one (1) "unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included. The annual requirement is ten (10) CPD units each year from 1 April to 31 March. Some practitioners, such as accredited specialists are required to complete more than ten (10) units each CPD year.

Practitioners holding WA practising certificates are eligible to earn CPD points for this course. For instructions to earn CPD points, please click here.

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