Emily Haar

Expertise

Recognition

‘Emily Haar is very approachable for thoughts and opinions as to strategic plan. Business focused and Emily works with the client to minimise risk.’
The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific: Labour and employment, 2021 edition – Testimonials

Recent deals and media coverage

• Corporate Ladder: your weekly guide to executive appointments – InDaily, 14 February 2022
• Piper Alderman promotes 11 – Lawyers Weekly, 13 December 2021
• Mind the Gap: Privacy Protection at Work – Law Society SA Bulletin, August 2023

Accolades

• The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific – Recommended for Labour and employment – 2021 & 2022 edition
• Doyle’s Guide – Employment & WHS Rising Stars – Australia, 2018, 2020 & 2021 editions
• Doyle’s Guide – Leading Employment Lawyers (Employer Representation) – South Australia, since 2023 edition
• Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards – Finalist for Workplace Relations and Employment Team of the Year – 2016, 2017 & 2018

Memberships

• Deputy Chair, Lutheran Education SA, NT & WA Inc
• Deputy Chair, Lutheran Homes Group Inc, Chair of Governance Committee
• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Member, Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association SA
• Member, Australian Labour Law Association
• Member, Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association

Related Insights

• Employment Relations Podcast #44 – When is the deal done? Resolving employment disputes
• Employment Relations Podcast #43 – Federal Election 2025: What is being proposed for industrial relations reform?
• Employment Relations Podcast #42 – What could the proposed ban on “non-competes” mean for Australian employers?
• Is the price right? Wage compliance for small business employers
• Employment Relations Podcast #41 – Understanding the Employment Law Considerations in Defence Export Controls
• When is alternative employment suitable? Commission considers the scope of section 120
• Employment Relations Podcast #40 – Understanding the Australian Right to Disconnect
• Employment Relations Podcast #39 – Restraints on restraints! What the United States’ ban on non-compete clauses could mean for Australian businesses
• When is a redundancy genuine? The necessity of timely consultation
• Preventing workplace bullying in a remote working environment
• Contractor vs Employee: The label is not determinative
• The Fair Work Commission’s Annual Wage Review 23-24
• Employment Relations Podcast #38 – Wage Theft: Go Directly to Jail?
• Webinar Q&As: 2024 ‘Beat the Clock’ Series: Substantive Law | Underpayment or wage theft? Understanding compliance with the Fair Work Act, criminalisation and the proposed safe harbour provisions
• “In the course of employment”: Worker required to have a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine awarded workers compensation following adverse effects
• Closing the rest of the loopholes: Final tranche of Fair Work Act amendments passes, but with some significant changes
• Employment Relations Podcast #37 – Closing Loopholes No. 2: Considering Complexities
• Employment Relations Podcast #36 – What does a psychosocially safe workplace look like?
• Fixed Term Contracts – What you need to know about the new restrictions, and further exceptions
• Unfair Contract Terms and Independent Contractors – Are your templates at risk under new reforms?
• Employment Relations Podcast #35 – The Governance of Decision Making in the Post-Qantas Environment
• Employment Relations Podcast #34 – Do you see what I see? The Closing Loopholes Bill
• The next tranche of Fair Work Act changes is underway as the Protecting Worker Entitlements Bill passes both Houses of the Commonwealth Parliament
• Fair Work Commission decides that changes to the Professional Employees Award 2020 are necessary to meet the modern awards objective – What do employers need to know?
• Employment Relations Podcast #33 – National WHS Update: Industrial Manslaughter Laws and the Prohibition of Insurance
• Natural Persons Only: Federal Court Clarifies Superannuation Entitlements in Jamsek v ZG Operations Australia
• Employment Relations Podcast #32 – Addressing the Gender Pay Gap and Yet More Amendments to the Fair Work Act: What Employers Need to Know
• Employment Relations Podcast #31 – Consultation: Who, What, Where, and How?
• Understanding your organisation’s rights if the Fair Work Ombudsman issues a Notice to Produce
• Fair Work Ombudsman commences proceedings against Non-Employer Franchisor for alleged underpayments by franchisee
• Secret Surveillance: Fair Work Commission decides that employer can rely on recordings of internal employee telephone conversations to defend unfair dismissal claim
• Employment Relations Podcast #30 – Industrial Relations in 2022 and Beyond: Year in Review
• Employment Relations Podcast #29 – Secure Jobs, Better Pay – What ended up in the final version?
• The Respect@Work Act has officially been passed by Parliament – which proposals ultimately made the cut?
• What is “social origin”? Federal Circuit and Family Court considers the scope of protected attributes
• Webinar Q&As: Employment Relations National Seminar Series | Changes to the Fair Work Act: What is in store for Employers?
• Employment Relations Podcast #28 – The Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill: What could it mean for your organisation?
• The Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is here: How will the Bill impact bargaining and agreement-making?
• The Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is here: How will the Bill impact gender equality and safety at work?
• The Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is here: How will the Bill impact the management of staff?
• The Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is here: What are the proposed changes to Australia’s industrial relations landscape?
• Employment Relations Podcast #27 – Respect@Work Part 2: What can organisations do now to be ready to comply with the positive duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace?
• Employment Relations Podcast #26 – Respect@Work Part 1: Does your organisation understand its existing obligations to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace?
• Unreasonable Adjustments – How far must an employer go to enable an employee to return to work?
• Breaking news: Federal Government introduces Respect@Work Bill
• Changes coming to employers – a look at the 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit
• Reasonable to rely on ATAGI: Fair Work Commission considers reasonableness of workplace vaccination policy in an unsuccessful unfair dismissal application
• A Tale of Two Vaccination Policies
• Employment Relations Podcast #25 – An overview of the general protections: When is a complaint an exercise of a workplace right, and who is the decision maker?
• Fair Work Commission Considers COVID-19 Vaccination Policy Implemented During Omicron
• Using his own words against him: How a complete refusal to comply with an employer’s vaccination policy regardless of its contents can justify termination without notice
• Lawful but unreasonable refusal to work from home – A matter of life and death?
• Employment Relations Podcast #24 – Special Edition: Contract is King – the High Court decisions in Jamsek and Personnel Contracting
• Webinar Q&As: Beat the Clock | Substantive Law – Workplace Lessons from the Pandemic
• Employment Relations Podcast #23 – Recent Round-Up of Covid-19 Vaccination Decisions
• A totally fabricated diary of working hours, and still no costs!
• Webinar Q&As: Employment Relations National Seminar Series | The Final Phase: Managing and Dismissing Unvaccinated Employees
• Employment Relations Podcast #22 – Moving to a vaccinated economy: What is an employer to do?
• Employment Relations Podcast #21 – Workplace investigations: tips and tricks
• Revisiting the limits of unfair dismissal claims: when is a contract expiry a dismissal?
• Employment Relations Podcast #20 – The High Court’s decision in rossato: A game-changer for contractual interpretation of Employment and Independent Contractor Arrangements?
• Employment Relations Podcast #19 – Privacy and Consent: Is your organisation collecting “sensitive” personal information about your staff?
• Employment Relations Podcast #18 – COVID-19 Vaccinations and your workplace: Is it a lawful and reasonable direction to mandate a vaccination?
• Caffeine collusion: fraudulent use of the company account to fund a caffeine habit can be a valid reason for dismissal
• The creation of a mature aged-care “profession”: is your organisation ready?
• Statutory casual definition introduced to the Fair Work Act
• COVID-19 vaccinations for employees: can it be “lawful and reasonable” for your organisation to make the vaccination compulsory for employees?
• Employment Relations Podcast #17 – Civil underpayments vs Criminal wage theft: Compare the pair
• Employment Relations Podcast #16 – The new Fair Work Amendment Bill – a taste of things to come in 2021
• Employment Relations Podcast #15: What do organisations need to consider as remote working becomes optional again?
• Employment Relations Podcast #14 – The impact of the gig economy on the concept of “work”: it’s broader than you might think
• Government directions to require online-education only may not be a “stoppage” of work that allows employees to be stood down without pay: What is required for a “business activity” to cease?
• Employment Relations Podcast #13 – Does it pass the smell test? When a contractor is actually an employee.
• Further changes to labour hire licensing in South Australia: Is your business involved in “prescribed work”?
• New financial year, new rates: Increases to award rates, penalty units and the High-Income Threshold are coming
• Employment Relations Podcast #12 – Are your casual employees really casual? A discussion of the Rossato decision
• Employment Relations Podcast #11 – Current and post COVID-19 employment restructuring: What options does your organisation have?
• Employment Relations Podcast #10 – What tools does your business have in its kit to deal with COVID-19 and beyond?
• Employment Relations Podcast #9 – April 2020 update regarding the employment law considerations arising from COVID-19
• Employment Relations Podcast #8 – COVID-19 and Work Health and Safety Obligations
• Employment Relations Podcast #7 – Is your business prepared for the employment law consequences of COVID-19?
• Employment Relations Podcast #6 – Overview of National Employment Standards and Award Annualised Salaries… coming to a workplace near you?
• Employment Relations Podcast #5 – Christmas Party Pitfalls
• Lifting the veil: When can the Commission look beyond an external authority’s decision as to psychological suitability?
• Employment Relations Podcast #4 – Part 3 of our Whistleblower Special
• Employment Relations Podcast #3 – Part 2 of our Whistleblower Special
• Employment Relations Podcast #2 – Part 1 of our Whistleblower Special
• Piper Alderman releases podcast: “Employment Law for the Time Poor”
• Employment Relations Podcast #1 – Why lawyers and maths don’t mix
• Recklessness, negligence, increased fines and the end of insurance – is your workplace ready?
• Freedom to hire: discrimination damages awarded for failure to hire because of a candidate’s political activities
• Labour hire licensing is back on in SA!
• Potential prosecution by a safety regulator for poor workplace culture – is it coming to a workplace near you?
• The curious case of the calculating courier
• South Australia leaves Labour Hire Licensing behind
• Food delivery service “gig economy” operators under the industrial spotlight
• Compulsory FWO interviews: coming to an employer near you
• You’ll have to say it at the SAET: Expansion of the role of the South Australian Employment Tribunal
• You’ll have to say it at the SAET: Expansion of the role of the South Australian Employment Tribunal
• A call for licensing and registration in the labour hire industry
• Do we need an exemption to only advertise this job to women? VCAT says no
• Don’t tell me the party’s over: The Fair Work Commission considers the physical and temporal limitations to managerial intervention into the office Christmas party

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