Navigating Employment Law in 2026: Hiring, Pay and Termination Decisions Employers Need to Get Right

Wednesday, 6 August 2026, 8.30AM-9.30AM, Parramatta CBD

NEW EVENT

📅 Date: Wednesday, 6 July 2026
⏰ Time: 8.30AM-9.30AM (8.15AM arrival)
📍 Venue: Level 3, 100 George Street, Parramatta NSW 2150

Hiring, pay and termination decisions are carrying more risk than ever. For employers, the issue is no longer just getting people decisions wrong. It is the legal, financial and reputational exposure that follows when contracts are poorly drafted, pay obligations are misunderstood, or termination processes are mishandled.

In this session, Antonino Meduri, Principal at AM Law & Partners, will examine the key employment risk areas senior leaders need to be across in 2026. Reframed for a more senior audience, the discussion will move beyond common “mistakes” and focus instead on the organisational risk, liability and downstream consequences created by failures at hiring, during employment, and at termination. The session builds on the current presentation themes around contracts, underpayments, termination process and changing workplace obligations.

Key session takeaways:
• The employment risk areas that create the greatest liability across hiring, pay and termination
• How contractual design failures at the point of hire can create long-tail legal and commercial exposure
• Where underpayment, award misalignment and payroll assumptions leave employers exposed
• Why termination decisions continue to create outsized legal, reputational and leadership risk
• The key legal developments and recent case-based lessons senior leaders should be watching in 2026

About Antonino Meduri

Antonino Meduri is an Employment and Work Health & Safety lawyer with experience gained at some of the world’s leading law firms and at the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

He has acted for global employers across a wide range of industries, delivering advice throughout Australia and beyond. He also brings significant litigation experience, having supported barristers and judges in complex commercial and employment disputes.

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