Managing Performance, Hiring & Firing: Avoiding the Legal Pitfalls in 2026
Thursday, 24 September 2026, 8.30AM - 9.30AM, Sydney CBD
NEW EVENT
📅 When: Thursday, 24 September 2026
⏰ Time: 8.30AM - 9.30AM
📍 Venue: Level 6, 261 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
🥗 Light breakfast provided
Employment law continues to evolve, and even well-intentioned employers can find themselves exposed to significant legal and financial risk. This practical breakfast session will explore three of the most common mistakes organisations make when hiring employees, managing performance, and ending employment, while also examining the growing importance of psychosocial risk management in today's workplaces.
Attendees will learn:
• How to avoid common legal pitfalls when hiring employees and drafting employment contracts
• Best-practice approaches to managing employee performance while reducing legal risk
• The correct processes for managing terminations and difficult workplace conversations
• Employer obligations regarding psychosocial hazards and how they intersect with performance management
• Key employment law developments employers should be aware of in 2026
• Practical steps HR professionals and business leaders can implement immediately to strengthen compliance and workplace culture
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About Antonino Meduri
Antonino Meduri, Principal at AM Law & Partners, is a specialist Employment, Work Health & Safety and Commercial Litigation lawyer, and has acted for global companies across a wide range of industries, delivering advice throughout Australia and internationally.
Prior to founding AM Law & Partners, he worked as an associate at some of the world’s leading law firms and as Tipstaff at the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
He is regularly engaged by other law firms to provide specialist Employment, Work Health & Safety law and Commercial Litigation advice to their clients. He has also been appointed by the Supreme Court of New South Wales as an independent solicitor to supervise the execution of Search Orders.
