News

Jun 28, 2018

Swaab Attor­neys announces a record nine promotions

Swaab Attor­neys are delight­ed to announce the fol­low­ing inter­nal pro­mo­tions across the fir­m’s employ­ment, lit­i­ga­tion, IP & tech­nol­o­gy, com­mer­cial, cor­po­rate and prop­er­ty, plan­ning and projects teams, effec­tive 1 July 2018. Spe­cial Counsel · Wendy Con­ce­icao, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects · Stacey Collins, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects Senior Asso­ciate · Tim­o­thy Hard­wick, Litigation · Alyce John­son, Prop­er­ty…

Jan 15, 2018

New Part­ner Joins Employ­ment Team

Swaab are delight­ed to wel­come new part­ner Michael Byrnes to the fir­m’s Employ­ment Practice. Michael brings with him over 21 years’ expe­ri­ence in employ­ment law with a spe­cial­i­ty in Work­place rela­tions, Employ­ment and Safe­ty. Michael’s broad range of expe­ri­ence includes employ­ment con­tract nego­ti­a­tion, employ­ment law aspects of cor­po­rate trans­ac­tions and appear­ing as an…

Aug 4, 2016

Employ­ment Law Mat­ters fea­tures inter­view with Richard Ottley

Employ­ment Part­ner, Richard Ott­ley was recent­ly inter­viewed by Employ­ment Law Mat­ters sur­round­ing how much med­ical infor­ma­tion a HR pro­fes­sion­al can request. Read the full arti­cle here where Richard out­lines his top five pieces of advice and some recent cas­es that high­light the issue. Richard also tack­les the increas­ing­ly impor­tant issue of social…

Jul 8, 2016

Pro­mo­tions at Swaab

Swaab is pleased to announce the pro­mo­tion of Car­o­line Bass to Part­ner. A Fam­i­ly Law spe­cial­ist with over 13 years’ expe­ri­ence, Car­o­line has a strong back­ground in estate plan­ning and exten­sive expe­ri­ence in domes­tic vio­lence law. Car­o­line has been a Senior Asso­ciate with Swaab for over six years, join­ing the firm in 2010. Man­ag­ing Part­ner…

Jun 17, 2016

War­wick Ryan’s lat­est Employ­ment blog

War­wick Ryan has pub­lished his lat­est blog, ​‘The com­plex­i­ty of employ­ment law in Aus­tralia has no future in the ​‘future”. The blog exam­ines the cur­rent laws and their place in the future of work.Click here to read War­wick­’s blog…

Oct 23, 2015

When kind­ness is cru­el — War­wick Ryan cit­ed in Smartcompany

Employ­ment law spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has crit­i­cised the Fair Work Com­mis­sion’s deci­sion in a recent unfair dis­missal case for Pat­ties Food.  In April of this year, part-time store­man Heath Stephen­son was fired after dri­ving at an ​‘unrea­son­able dan­ger­ous high speed’ when arriv­ing at work one night. Although Pat­ties argued that Stephen­son’s ter­mi­na­tion…

Oct 16, 2015

War­wick Ryan Fea­tured in Smart­com­pa­ny on Aus­tralian off­shoring investigation 

Employ­ment spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has been cit­ed in a recent Smart­com­pa­ny arti­cle regard­ing the trend of Aus­tralian jobs being offered over­seas for below legal wages.A Fair­fax and Monash inves­ti­ga­tion found that out of 1000 ads in the Asian region, over 80% offered pay­ment below the min­i­mum require­ment. These find­ings fol­low recent…

Oct 2, 2015

War­wick Ryan Fea­tured in Smart­com­pa­ny on Kim­ber­ley Ports Author­i­ty Unfair Dis­missal Case

Employ­ment law spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has been cit­ed in a recent Smart­com­pa­ny arti­cle regard­ing the sack­ing of a work­er at Kim­ber­ley Ports Author­i­ty, who drove a fork­lift whilst under the influ­ence ear­li­er this year. The Fair Work Com­mis­sion approved the Port’s deci­sion, stat­ing that the like­li­hood of employ­ee Lee Ward mak­ing a ​‘gen­uine mis­take’…

Sep 28, 2015

War­wick Ryan Fea­tured In Smart­com­pa­ny on Par­malat Food Prod­ucts Unfair Dis­missal Case 

Employ­ment law spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has been cit­ed in a recent Smart­com­pa­ny arti­cle regard­ing the rein­state­ment of an unfair­ly dis­missed fork­lift dri­ver at Par­la­mat Food Products.  In March of this year, 63-year-old Christo­pher Tran was fired for fail­ing to abide by com­pa­ny pro­to­col in the event of a milk spillage. Despite the inci­dent…

Sep 4, 2015

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on Qan­tas unfair dis­missal case

Employ­ment law spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on a recent unfair dis­missal case which was ruled in Qan­tas’ favour after the air­line sacked an employ­ee for book­ing cheap flights for fam­i­ly friends. Maria Pan­era com­menced work­ing with Qan­tas in 1986 but was dis­missed in June last year after she…