News

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…

Apr 14, 2020

COVID-19 Pod­cast | A Short Guide to the Job­Keep­er Pay­ment and Job­Keep­er Flexibility

COVID-19: A Short Guide to the Job­Keep­er Pay­ment and Job­Keep­er Flex­i­bil­i­ty pod­cast - 14 April 2020…

Mar 27, 2020

Pod­cast | Dis­cus­sions on work­place law issues aris­ing from the Coro­n­avirus on 2GB | 26 March 2020

Part­ner Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place law issues aris­ing from the Coro­n­avirus cri­sis with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 26 March 2020 (from 1.43.50).Michael Byrnes on 2GB — 26 March 2020…

Mar 27, 2020

Lawyers Week­ly | Indef­i­nite remote work­ing to have last­ing impact on firms’ WHS poli­cies | 26 March 2020

Part­ner Michael Byrnes fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on 26 March 2020 to dis­cuss how indef­i­nite remote work­ing arrange­ments will have last­ing impact on firms’ WHS policies. Indef­i­nite remote work­ing to have last­ing impacts on firms’ WHS poli­cies — Lawyers Week­ly — 26 March 2020, fea­tur­ing Part­ner Michael Byrnes…

Mar 12, 2020

Michael Byrnes fea­tured on Mon­ey News ‑11^th March 2020 — The coro­n­avirus and man­ag­ing employ­ee leave entitlements

Lis­ten to Michael Byrnes on Mon­ey News with Brooke Corte — 11 March 2020…

Mar 2, 2020

Michael Byrnes on 2GB — 28 Feb­ru­ary 2020 — Full Bench Fair Work Com­mis­sion appeal decision

Michael Byrnes with John Stan­ley — 28 Feb­ru­ary 2020…

Feb 13, 2020

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in HRM online — 12 Feb­ru­ary 2020 — Pro­ba­tion and the min­i­mum employ­ment peri­od – what’s the difference?

It’s a sim­ple dis­tinc­tion, but the lan­guage around ​‘pro­ba­tion’ still cre­ates con­fu­sion for non-experts. HRM tries to clear it up.Click here to take you to the article.…

Feb 7, 2020

Michael Byrnes on 2GB — 6 Feb­ru­ary 2020 — 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…

Dec 18, 2019

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the Lawyers Week­ly arti­cle: Reli­gious employ­ees in law firms ​‘should be cir­cum­spect’ about new bill

Employ­ment part­ner Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the Lawyers Week­ly arti­cle: Reli­gious employ­ees in law firms ​‘should be cir­cum­spect’ about new bill. Read the full arti­cle here.…