Protect Your Profit - Top 5 Legal Pitfalls To Avoid - Captain's Table Sydney

Protect your Profit

- the TOP 5 Legal Pitfalls every recruiter should know - and how to handle them

In our May Captain's Table session, you will hear from an industry legal expert on the potential traps facing recruiters in 2019 and practical tips on how to deal with them. It is a common response to legal issues to think they are separate to your business and exist outside it, only to apply when things go wrong. In fact, laws are simply the rules governing relationships. For recruiters and agencies, key relationships are with customers, candidates, employees and governments regulators.

There are pitfalls in all these relationships if the rules aren't understood, and real risk to your success if they are ignored. The flipside is that an agency that understands how the legal rules apply can set the foundations of protection and grow with confidence knowing their relationships are on solid legal ground.

These pitfalls and ways to handle them will be covered:

* Bad TOBs are bad for business - getting your TOBs working for you

* Why everyone is talking about privacy and why it matters to you

* Why setting up a contractor and temporary worker business isn't as simple as you hope

* You have valuable IP and you should be protecting it

* You haven't got time to waste thinking about why you're not getting paid

About Martin Richardson, Director, Covus Group

Martin spent last 12 years working as a senior legal adviser inside some of Australia’s foremost companies, including as the Australian General Counsel for one of the world's largest workforce solutions businesses. Martin is now a private legal advisor to the Australian recruitment and staffing industry where he focuses on providing practical and business focused legal solutions to agencies of all sizes.

Martin’s personal approach and experience lends itself perfectly to any agency that requires a hands-on legal adviser that doesn’t get bogged down in jargon when providing advice and assistance. Martin is also solutions focused and goes out of his way to understand the impact of his advice on his agency clients and how they can get real value from his service.

He is passionate about the recruitment and staffing industry and sees a real need for expert legal advice that goes straight to the unique issues that face the industry. He assists agencies with setting up Terms of Business and user guides, getting across privacy and data risks, negotiating PSAs and client contracts quickly and with minimum fuss, and acts as an on-call adviser and sounding board when business guidance is needed.

About Captain's Table

Captain's Table is a professionally-facilitated forum for owners and leaders of recruitment businesses. Attendees are encouraged to share experiences and engage in discussions. As an industry knowledge group session, attendees help shape monthly meetings and content is developed in-line with feedback to ensure that events are topical, interesting and meaningful.

Captain's Table is brought to you by - leading RMS provider Job Adder, industry specialist cash flow finance partner APositive and recruitment industry growth advisor Navigator Consulting.

Feel free to bring a senior staff member but please Book Early as seats are very limited due to high demand.

(Copy of presentation and light lunch included).