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Apr 12, 2021

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the legal issues relat­ed to employ­ees appear­ing on real­i­ty TV shows with John Stan­ley on 2GB on 11 April 2021 (from 42:00): 

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the legal issues relat­ed to employ­ees appear­ing on real­i­ty TV shows with John Stan­ley on 2GB on 11 April 2021 (from 42:00): Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…

Apr 9, 2021

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in Lawyers Week­ly | Lawyers should think twice before appear­ing on real­i­ty TV

While it might seem like a good, fun and maybe even enrich­ing expe­ri­ence to go on the real­i­ty TV show jour­ney, legal employ­ees need to seri­ous­ly con­sid­er their pro­fes­sion­al stand­ing and employ­ment before agree­ing to be a con­tes­tant on such a show, writes Michael Byrnes.Refer the full arti­cle here…

Apr 9, 2021

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in The Aus­tralian arti­cle | Vic­to­ri­an quar­an­tine staff refuse vaccine

Michael Byrnes — Part­ner, Employ­ment & Work­place Health and Safe­ty is quot­ed in The Aus­tralian arti­cle, Vic­to­ri­an quar­an­tine staff refuse vaccine. Read full arti­cle here…

Mar 26, 2021

Press Release | New Women’s Lead­er­ship Congress

As you may know, Swaab is a mem­ber of Mer­i­tas, the pre­mier glob­al net­work of inde­pen­dent law firms. Our affil­i­a­tion enables our clients to do busi­ness any­where in the world. Mem­ber­ship in Mer­i­tas also pro­vides our firm with tools to enhance our prac­tice and grow. The Mer­i­tas Women’s Lead­er­ship Con­gress fur­thers gen­der equi­ty…

Mar 16, 2021

Helen Kow­al to present on 25 March 2021 for Legal­wise | Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020: New Duties and Penal­ties for Architects

Helen Kow­al shares an out­line of the new duties and penal­ties for archi­tects under the new Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020. She will be delv­ing fur­ther into this top­ic at the upcom­ing Law for Archi­tects: Cru­cial Issues in Com­pli­ance and Con­tracts sem­i­nar on Thurs­day 25 March. Read out­line here…

Mar 3, 2021

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in HRM Online arti­cle | Free­dom of speech in the work­place: a legal refresher

Michael Byrnes — Part­ner, Employ­ment & Work­place Health and Safe­ty is quot­ed in HRM Online arti­cle, Free­dom of speech in the work­place: a legal refresh­er, pub­lished 2 March 2021Read the full arti­cle here…

Feb 25, 2021

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with John Trinh

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

Feb 25, 2021

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with James Skelton

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

Feb 23, 2021

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with Esther Khoo

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

Feb 23, 2021

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place vac­ci­na­tion with Ben Ford­ham On 2GB | 23 Feb­ru­ary 2021

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the legal issues relat­ed to manda­to­ry work­place Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion with Ben Ford­ham on 2GB on 23 Feb­ru­ary 2021.Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…