Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Next Live Session
How to create an Employee Families Resource Network
Are you looking at setting up an Employee Resource Group for your employees with caring responsibilities? Employee Resource Groups are a great way to provide a safe space for employees to connect and raise awareness about the issues they’re facing, foster belonging, and develop a collective and active voice for change.
In this event, our guest speakers will share leading practice on:
- The Why – The benefits of a Families Resource Group
- The Who – Who should be involved? How to engage them?
- The How – How to create a purposeful and inclusive employee group?
- The What – What should be on the group’s agenda?
- The What Else – When to launch, how to keep going and how to ensure successful outcomes
Event Details
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Family Friendly Workplaces Education Session (online webinar)
How to become a certified Family Inclusive Workplace
Family Friendly Workplaces is running free education sessions for workplaces about how to become certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace. Hosted by our Founder, Emma Walsh the webinar will run for 45 minutes and will provide the opportunity to ask questions. Join other business leaders and HR leaders as you learn about what is involved in the process to Family Inclusive Workplace certification.
What will we be covered?
- An Introduction and background to Family Friendly Workplaces
- The 4+2 Pillars to Family Inclusive Workplaces
- An overview of The National Work + Family Standards
- The business case for action
- A step by step guide on what’s involved in the certification process
- Q&A question time
PAST EVENTS
October 2022
VIRTUAL Work&Care Summit
How to become a certified Family Inclusive Workplace
The Summit will recommend immediate opportunities and actions for organisations to create a caring Australia that is family inclusive and shift the dial on carer’s paid work participation, engagement and productivity.
Summit attendance is recommended for CEOs and C-suite, HR & DEI professionals, unions and industry associations.
This virtual inaugural event will bring together the care sector, community groups and certified Family Inclusive Workplace employers to explore and discuss:
- The diverse challenges carers face in the workplace
- The rationale to bridge the work and care divide
- The roadmap for employers to support carers at work
Speakers Include:
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Bronnie Taylor, Minister for Women
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Anne Hollonds, National Children’s Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
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Senator Barbara Pocock, Greens Party
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Danielle Wood, CEO, Grattan Institute
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Kristine Ziwica, Author, Leaning Out
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Dr Janin Bredehoeft, Research & Analytics, WGEA
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Melanie Evans, CEO, ING
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David Bryant, CEO, Mercer
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Alison Hernandez, APAC Director, HSM Advisory
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Grainne O’Laughlin, CEO, Karitane
- Michael Woodhouse, Director, The Benevolent Society
- Jenna Leo, Founder, Like Family
- Andrea Christie-David, Founder, Leo
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Melissa Bowden, HR Director, Workday
Event Details
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm
To read more about the Summit including the panel session topics visit the Summit website here.
June 2022
Report Launch
12 Months On: Examining the Benefits of Family Friendly Workplaces
A celebration of one year since the launch of the National Work and Family Standards and Family Friendly Workplaces certification.
The Bridging the Work and Family Divide Report examines the impact of family friendly workplaces and forms the basis of a social impact framework being developed as a catalyst for change to support all families in the workplace.
The event brought together certified organisations, alongside government and other business leaders, gender equality and family advocates. Together they recognised the progress made and the 70 organisations who have been certified as Family Inclusive Workplaces™.
Speakers
- The Hon. Matt Kean, NSW Treasurer
- Ann Sherry AO, Chair, UNICEF Australia
- Emma Walsh, CEO, Parents At Work
- Pip Dexter, Talent and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Executive Lead
- Melanie Evans, CEO, ING Australia
- Shiona Watson, Chief People Officer, QBE Insurance
Event Details
May 2022
Family Friendly Workplaces Education Sessions
How to become a certified Family Inclusive Workplace™
Family Friendly Workplaces is running free education sessions for workplaces about how to become certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace. Hosted by our Founder, Emma Walsh the webinar will run for 45 minutes and will provide the opportunity to ask questions. Join other business leaders and HR leaders as you learn about what is involved in the process to Family Inclusive Workplace™ certification.
What will we be covered?
- An Introduction and background to Family Friendly Workplaces
- The 4+2 Pillars to Family Inclusive Workplaces
- An overview of The National Work + Family Standards
- The business case for action
- A step by step guide on what’s involved in the certification process
- Q&A question time
February 2022
Webinar Event
How to become a certified Family Inclusive Workplace™
Family Friendly Workplaces strive to reduce the tension that exists between work and family by embedding and promoting policies and practices that genuinely support employees to thrive at work and at home. Never has there been a better time to get certified.
Family Friendly Workplaces is running free education sessions for workplaces about how to become certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace. Hosted by our Founder, Emma Walsh the webinar will run for 45 minutes and will provide the opportunity to ask questions. Join other business leaders and HR leaders as you learn about what is involved in the process to Family Inclusive Workplace certification.
Event Details
Please note: A recording to this event will be made available by request.
SEPTEMBER 2021
Employer Roundtable
The Case for Action on Gender Equal Parental Leave
Increasingly organisations continue to examine and improve their family leave policies to better support new parents, however, the question remains:
What should a best practice parental leave program deliver employees and leaders in a post covid world?
In this next roundtable, we explore and share:
- What makes a competitive parental leave policy in the context of our new ‘future of work’ paradigm, in a post covid world
- How to develop a gender equal policy
- How to measure the impact of a parental leave policy
- Discuss examples of latest thinking around developing parental leave programs
- Why your parental leave policy is vital to your gender equality strategy
Join the Parents At Work team and special guests as they share their experience designing world leading parental leave policies. Our special guests include:
- Alison Kitchen, Chair, KPMG – Alison is a vocal spokesperson on improving Government PPL and will speak to KPMG’s new 26 weeks label free new policy
- Danielle Wood, CEO, The Grattan Institute – Danielle is launching a ‘hot off the press’ research paper on improving Paid Parental Leave
Event Details
Please note: This exclusive by invitation only online roundtable is limited to 25 participants. Please email [email protected] to request attendance or to go on the waitlist.
AUGUST 2021
Employer Roundtable
The future of work has arrived. It’s more fluid and unpredictable than anyone could have imagined. So how are organisations adapting their approach to operate in a new virtual, agile and hybrid workplace where the usual office based, clock on clock off rules no longer apply?
- What are the implications for individual and team-based collaboration, performance and wellbeing?
- How can flexible hybrid working be structured to deliver maximum success?
- How are leadership teams rising to the challenge to embed hybrid working approaches across their business?
- What challenges and wins have been experienced across workplaces that can be shared from other organisations?
Hear from experts including:
- Deloitte Consulting: Elise Sharpley, Partner, Deloitte
- QBE Insurance: Catherine McNair, Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
- Flex We Are: Ariane Virtue, Partner
Event Details
Please note: This exclusive by invitation only online roundtable is limited to 25 participants. Please email [email protected] to request attendance.
JUNE 2021
Briefing and Education Sessions
These sessions are to help employers understand more about what it takes to be certified as a Family Friendly Workplace, including details of the simple step by step process it involves. The education sessions will be led by Family Friendly Workplaces Certifiers who will provide time for a Q&A discussion to give you the opportunity to ask any questions you have.
This session is for leaders, HR and D&I professionals who are serious about having their organisation certified and would like to begin the initial steps.
Event Details
MAY 2021
Rethinking the Work + Family Divide
How workplaces are embracing being family inclusive
Learn what some of Australia’s first certified Family Friendly Workplaces are doing to bridge the work and family divide, close the gender equality gap, tackle discrimination, improve flexible working as well as overall wellbeing of their workplaces.
Moderated by Angela Priestley, Founder of Women’s Agenda the panel includes:
- Eleanor Debelle – Interim Chief Customer Officer – QBE AUSPAC
- Alison Hernandez – Managing Director – APAC, Randstad RiseSmart
- Lisa Annese – CEO, Diversity Council of Australia
Event Details
FAMILY FRIENDLY WORKPLACES:
NATIONAL WORK + FAMILY STANDARDS
Launch of a new recognition framework
New Work + Family Standards provide employers with a benchmark of best practice guidelines that support employees meet their work, family and wellbeing needs, developed in partnership by Parents At Work and Unicef Australia. The Family Friendly Workplaces recognition framework certifies employers as a Family Inclusive Workplace™.
Join moderator Annabel Crabb as she talks to a panel of leaders in corporate Australia who are dominating the charge, including:
- Ann Sherry, Chair, UNICEF Australia
- Alan Docherty, CFO, Commonwealth Bank
- Steven Worrall, MD, Microsoft Australia
- Clare Harding, CSO, Deloitte
For more information visit www.familyfriendlyworkplaces.com.au
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