9:00am Registration

9:30am - Welcome to Country

Luke Hilakari, VTHC Secretary, to open conference

Conference chair - Amanda Threlfall, VTHC Assistant Secretary

9:45am Class Actions and Social Justice: A Useful Tool for Unions

Gordon Legal Class Action Team

10:45am Morning tea

11:15am Panel - Recruiting and Retaining Industrial Officers

Amanda Swayn, MUA National Legal Officer

Kelly Thomas, ASU National Industrial Director

Nicole McPherson, FSU National Assistant Secretary

12:15pm Lunch

1:15pm Practical workshops

1. Roping in employers to multi-employer bargaining
   Sheldon Oski, UWU Acting Lead Industrial Officer
2. How to make wage theft claims easier
   Sunil Kemppi, Barrister and Paloma Cole, YWC Principal Solicitor
3. Workplace Justice Visas and Strengthening Reporting Protections
   Matt Kunkel, CEO Migrant Workers Centre
4. Winning new rights for workers
   Anthony Forsyth, ACTU Senior Legal Officer 
5. Mediation and Conciliation in the Federal Court
   Veronica Belot, Judicial Registrar Federal Circuit Court
6. Wage Inspectorate Victoria
   Speaker to be confirmed

Afternoon tea - 3pm

3:30pm Panel - Winning Big for Working People

Angharad Owens-Strauss, TWU Legal Officer (TWU v Qantas)

Penelope Parker - Senior Associate Maurice Blackburn Lawyers (Lattouf v ABC)

Louise de Plater, HSU Senior National Industrial Officer (gender-based undervaluation review)

Conference close - 4:30pm

Followed by canapes and drinks in Paddy's Gallery with optional Trades Hall tour

Conference attendence is worth 5 CPD points for Industrial officers with practising certificates.

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