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Jun 30, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Dyson Hey­don mat­ter and sex­u­al harass­ment with John Stan­ley on 2GB

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Dyson Hey­don mat­ter and sex­u­al harass­ment in the legal pro­fes­sion and work­places gen­er­al­ly with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 29 June 2020 (from 1:32:25). To lis­ten to the pod­cast click here…

Jun 12, 2020

Updates to NSW WHS Laws: A Brief Overview by Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capener

WHS Laws: A Brief Overview On 4 June 2020, NSW Par­lia­ment passed the Work Health and Safe­ty Amend­ment (Review) Bill 2020 (the Amend­ment Bill) which intro­duced var­i­ous changes to WHS laws under the NSW Work Health and Safe­ty Act 2001 (the Act). These changes, the most sig­nif­i­cant of which are briefly out­lined…

Jun 4, 2020

Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capen­er are fea­tured in an inter­view with Lawyers Week­ly — 4 June 2020

Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capen­er dis­cuss how to respond to employ­ees on Job­Keep­er who refuse to return to work. Read full inter­view here.…

May 22, 2020

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in The Dri­ve Pro­gram on Radio Nation­al — 21 May 2020

Michael Byrnes talks with Patri­cia Karve­las on the Dri­ve Pro­gram about the Work­plac v Rossato case deal­ing with casu­al employ­ees. Lis­ten to the inter­view here…

May 20, 2020

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in The Law Report on Radio Nation­al — 19 May 2020

Covid-19 emer­gency respons­es for wit­ness­ing wills and redun­dan­cy pay­outs. And a win for trau­ma­tised US Face­book con­tent moderators.Lis­ten to the inter­view here.…

May 11, 2020

COVID-19 | 3 rea­sons for the increase in unfair dis­missal claims

The FWC has seen a huge increase in unfair dis­missal claims. HRM asks Michael Brynes why this might be and what HR should be doing.View arti­cle here.…

May 7, 2020

COVID-19 Pod­cast | Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Job­Keep­er Scheme with John Stan­ley 2GB

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Job­Keep­er Scheme (and the legal aspects of rug­by league coach Wayne Ben­net­t’s hair­style edict!) with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 6 May 2020 (from 1:31.50).Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…

May 4, 2020

COVID-19 Pod­cast | Work­place law issues aris­ing from the COVID­Safe App

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed work­place law issues aris­ing from the COVID­Safe app with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 30 April 2020 (from 1.44:15). Lis­ten to the pod­cast here.…

Apr 30, 2020

COVID-19 | Employ­ers and the COVID­Safe App

By Michael Byrnes, Part­ner and Emi­ly Capen­er, Solicitor The COVID­Safe app recent­ly released by the Depart­ment of Health is one mea­sure cur­rent­ly being under­tak­en by the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment to facil­i­tate the process of con­tact­ing peo­ple who may have been exposed to coronavirus.  The mes­sage from author­i­ties is that the more Aus­tralians…

Apr 22, 2020

COVID-19 Pod­cast | Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Job­Keep­er scheme on 2GB

Part­ner Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the Job­Keep­er scheme with Brooke Corte and Scott Hay­wood on Mon­ey News on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC on 21 April 2020 (from 33.50). Link below.Michael Byrnes on 2GB — Tues­day 21 April 2020…