Many Australian businesses are struggling in the current economic environment, with consumer confidence falling, rising fuel costs and the public demise of major US investment banks, including Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. It is expected that the full effect of the global financial meltdown is yet to be felt, with far reaching implications for Australian businesses.

Coinciding with these challenges come further workplace relations changes with the potential to add costs and ongoing compliance issues for business. In particular, the Forward with Fairness Bill is due before the end of the year.

Given this state of play, FCB's upcoming Breakfast Seminar is focusing on helping your business manage this difficult time to ensure your workforce can remain competitive and profitable given the market pressures.

• Practical strategies to manage a change in business conditions
• Manage a restructure in your workplace

• The implications of the introduction of Forward with Fairness
• Managing redundancies

• Managing terminations to limit your risk and exposure

As always, we will continue our roundtable sessions, with FCB's specialist team presenting and facilitating discussion on the current issues affecting your business. At this seminar we will focus on restructuring and redundancy.

You can choose from the following roundtable topics when you book your place at the seminar:

Employment 1
Restructuring & managing redundancy in a white collar environment

Employment 2
Restructuring & managing redundancy in a blue collar environment