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Coro­n­avirus: Do Qan­tas work­ers have the right to refuse to clean planes from China?

A Qan­tas employ­ee has report­ed­ly been stood down for telling clean­ers they didn’t have to clean planes that had come from Chi­na where the coro­n­avirus orig­i­nat­ed. Part­ner Michael Byrnes explains both sides of the argu­ment with Ben Ford­ham on 2GB.

Lis­ten to the pod­cast here.

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The Work­place Vac­cine Man­date Myth Buster Case

In the recent Fair Work Com­mis­sion deci­sion of Eileen Owens v I‑Med Radi­ol­o­gy Ltd [2022] FWC 1823, an inter­locu­to­ry judg­ment con­sid­er­ing…

The Omi­cron Work­place Safe­ty Dilemma

The Omi­cron vari­ant has, in a mat­ter of weeks, trans­formed the COVID-19 sit­u­a­tion in the east­ern states of Aus­tralia. In New…

Covid-19 Vac­ci­na­tions for chil­dren – What hap­pens if you and the oth­er par­ent can­not agree?

As NSW hits the 70% vac­ci­na­tion mark and we get clos­er to return­ing to the life we knew before the…

In the News

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Sack­ing over anti-vaxxer protest at CFMEU HQ jus­ti­fied” — pub­lished in the Aus­tralian Finan­cial Review on 6 Jan­u­ary 2022

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Con­struc­tion Sites to Return to Full Capac­i­ty from 27 Sep­tem­ber 2021

Con­struc­tion Sites to Return to Full Capac­i­ty from 27 Sep­tem­ber 2021  Since 19 July 2021, NSW Con­struc­tion sites have either been…

Retail and Oth­er Com­mer­cial Leas­es (COVID-19) Amend­ment Reg­u­la­tion 2021

Vic­to­ria has passed enabling leg­is­la­tion for anoth­er rent relief scheme for retail and com­mer­cial ten­ants. How­ev­er, the spe­cif­ic details about…

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