News

Sep 5, 2019

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in the Aus­tralian Finan­cial Review — 5 Sep­tem­ber 2019

Michael Byrnes quot­ed as say­ing ​“I don’t want in any way to down­play or triv­i­alise how offen­sive it is to com­pare some­one to Hitler or oth­ers involved to Nazi Ger­many,” Mr Byrnes said. “But [the Down­fall meme] is often not nec­es­sar­i­ly equat­ing the par­tic­u­lar peo­ple [it satiris­es] with Hitler or Nazi…

Mar 27, 2019

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es whether an employ­er can sack you over what you say anony­mous­ly on social media

A High Court case will decide whether an employ­er can sack you over what you say anony­mous­ly on social media. Pub­lic ser­vant Michaela Baner­ji had worked for the Depart­ment of Immi­gra­tion and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion for sev­en years when she was fired in 2013. Her employ­er dis­cov­ered she was behind an anony­mous…

Mar 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work, health and safe­ty issues for junior lawyers in firms

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…

Mar 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the issue of employ­ees v inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors in the ​“gig economy”

The ​‘gig econ­o­my’ is a by-prod­uct of dis­rup­tive com­pa­nies and it’s rais­ing ques­tions for gov­ern­ments and employ­ment law experts. Are work­ers sole traders? Are they inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors? Are they employ­ees? Deliv­eroo is push­ing for a ​‘third way’ of legal­ly defin­ing con­tract work­ers, which would allow com­pa­nies to pro­vide some ben­e­fits –…

Mar 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the legal issues aris­ing from video record­ing and dissemination

Michael Byrnes speaks with John Stan­ley on radio 2GB and 4BC about the legal­i­ty sur­round­ing video record­ing and what hap­pens if you are sent unwant­ed videos in light of a string of NRL sex tapes Lis­ten to the record­ing here…

Mar 6, 2019

Michael Byrnes appears on The Keep podcast

In this episode Michael covers: The cul­ture changes that must be imple­ment­ed with­in businessesThe social impact of the #Metoo movementWhy imple­ment­ing train­ing is important?The impact of pow­er struc­tures with­in the work­place- What is it and how does it work?Cre­at­ing the right process­es to fol­low when com­plaints are made and to fol­low through.Encour­ag­ing peo­ple to come for­ward…

Jan 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes on radio 2GB and 4BC dis­cussing legal issues aris­ing from under­pay­ment of staff

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es legal issues aris­ing from under­pay­ment of staff on 2GB and 4BC. Lis­ten to the seg­ment here (from 56.00).…

Nov 19, 2018

Michael Byrnes on 2GB and 4BC dis­cussing legal issues aris­ing from work­place Christ­mas parties

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es legal issues aris­ing from work­place Christ­mas par­ties with Chris Ken­ny on 2GB and 4BC. Lis­ten to the seg­ment here (from 26.45).…

Sep 25, 2018

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es casu­al employ­ment on ​‘Mon­ey News’

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es casu­al employ­ment on the ​‘Mon­ey News’ pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC. Lis­ten to the inter­view here (from 37.30).…

Sep 14, 2018

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place bul­ly­ing on ​‘Mon­ey News’

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place bul­ly­ing on the ​‘Mon­ey News’ pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC. Lis­ten to the inter­view here (from 22.30).…