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Understand your obligations under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 in relation to new requirements for Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Harassment Prevention Plans.
Here’s a practical session designed to help you build a compliant, safe, and respectful workplace.
In this session, you’ll:
✅ Identify behaviours that constitute workplace harassment
✅ Understand the legal and WHS implications
✅ Learn what a compliant Prevention Plan must include
Presenters (2)
Rebecca Pezzutti is the Legal Practice Director at IRiQ Law.
rebecca.pezzutti@iriqlaw.com.au | 07 3225 3707
Rebecca is an employment and safety lawyer with over 17 years of experience in legal practice and a genuine interest in the practical application of industrial law within modern workplaces and organisations. She leads the firm’s workplace, industrial relations and safety practice and partners with clients to deliver legal outcomes that make sense and add value.
Rebecca’s employment and safety practice covers strategic, complex and sensitive workplace issues, including complex employee relations case management, investigations and disputes. Rebecca is an experienced advocate in the Fair Work Commission, Queensland Industrial Relations Commission, Federal Court and other state and federal tribunals. She is routinely engaged directly by in-house legal teams to leverage their capacity and by senior and executive officers to find and navigate strategic solutions to complex workplace issues.
Rebecca has established a reputation as a strategic litigator and ‘go to’ advisor around the effective management and resolution of human rights, discrimination, bullying and harassment issues in the workforce. She is also a sought-after speaker and facilitator of workplace training for leaders and managers.
In the area of work health and safety, Rebecca’s advice is often sought in response to safety incidents and investigations. She offers valuable and strategic guidance to individuals and organisations in response to regulator action, most commonly in the form of responding to improvement notices, prohibition notices and prosecutions.
Rebecca values collegiate relationships and has been endorsed by her peers in the legal profession by being elected to the Queensland Law Society Council for two consecutive terms in the 2019 and 2021 QLS elections. Rebecca has also served the profession as a member of the QLS Industrial Law Committee, the QLS Ethics Committee and as a District Law Association President for two terms in 2018 and 2019.
Rebecca obtained a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) at the University of Technology Sydney in 2006, and a Masters of Labour Law and Relations at the University of Sydney in 2022.
Abbey is an Associate at IRiQ Law.
abbey.glacken@iriqlaw.com.au | 07 3225 3717
Abbey comes to us with over three years of experience working in the HR team of an ASX-listed financial services company.
Abbey has broad experience across a range of workplace issues, including performance and conduct management, investigations, terminations, and disputes. Abbey’s most recent role included supporting with the planning and delivery of enterprise bargaining.
Abbey is passionate about leveraging her background to provide clients with practical, commercially sound legal advice tailored to their unique needs.
Abbey obtained a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Justice (Criminology and Policing) with Distinction at the Queensland University of Technology, and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice at the College of Law. Abbey was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2023.
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