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Michael Byrnes
Partner

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work, health and safe­ty issues for junior lawyers in firms with Lawyers Weekly.

Michael Byrnes and Jerome Doraisamy dis­cuss the WHS issues that law firms across the board need to be aware of when it comes to idio­syn­crat­ic issues affect­ing younger lawyers in the work­place, par­tic­u­lar­ly the impacts of fatigue, sus­tained stress, bul­ly­ing and exploita­tive inter­ac­tions with clients.

Lis­ten to the pod­cast here.

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Publications

Fair Work Com­mis­sion Full Bench Con­firms Gig Work­er’s Status

The sta­tus of gig econ­o­my work­ers has been a source of exten­sive debate in recent years. Michael Byrnes, Part­ner and Emi­ly…

An Employ­ee’s Com­mute Thwarts an Employ­er Com­mut­ing Redun­dan­cy Pay

In the recent Fair Work Com­mis­sion (FWC) deci­sion in Aus­tralian Footwear T/A Diana Fer­rari [2018] FWC 7864 the employ­er, a busi­ness…

A Real Deal: An Unfair Dis­missal Set­tle­ment Goes Wrong

We had a deal! An employ­er asserts an unfair dis­missal case has been set­tled. The Appli­cant con­tends no such set­tle­ment has…

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