News

Feb 15, 2021

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in The Aus­tralian | To vax or not: work­ers’ rights in the age of Covid

Michael Byrnes — Part­ner, Employ­ment & Work­place Health and Safe­ty is quot­ed in The Aus­tralian, To vax or not: work­ers’ rights in the age of Covid.Read the full arti­cle here…

Feb 12, 2021

Unpack­ing the ALP’s pro­posed portable leave policy

To read the full arti­cle click here.…

Feb 5, 2021

Press Release | New Senior Appoint­ment for Swaab

Julie Briscoe – Part­ner, Prop­er­ty and Com­mer­cial Law, spe­cialis­es in all aspects of com­mer­cial and retail prop­er­ty law, while also hav­ing exten­sive expe­ri­ence in cor­po­rate and trust struc­tur­ing and finance trans­ac­tions. With over 20 years’ expe­ri­ence Julie joins our ever-grow­ing prop­er­ty and com­mer­cial team.  To meet our clients increas­ing needs and as…

Feb 3, 2021

Can you be sacked if you refuse a COVID-19 vac­cine? And is neglect­ing an over­dosed friend a crime?

Two recent unfair dis­missal cas­es may pro­vide some insight into whether employ­ers can sack work­ers who refuse a COVID-19 vaccination. Also, a recent deci­sion in the NSW Court of Appeal upholds a manslaugh­ter con­vic­tion involv­ing a fail­ure to help a friend who need­ed urgent med­ical help. Click here to lis­ten to the ABC’s Law Report pod­cast…

Feb 1, 2021

State reg­u­la­tions say you could direct employ­ees back to the work­place – but should you?

HRM dives into the legal and moral con­sid­er­a­tions around forc­ing employ­ees to return to the phys­i­cal work­place. Michael Byrnes fea­tured in HRM Online 25 Jan­u­ary 2021. Click here to read the full article.…

Jan 18, 2021

Press Release | Three New Senior Appoint­ments for Swaab

Tri­na Fran­cis – Part­ner, Fam­i­ly Law, spe­cial­is­ing in fam­i­ly law, lawyer-assist­ed medi­a­tion and lit­i­ga­tion will be join­ing our award win­ning accred­it­ed spe­cial­ist Fam­i­ly Law team. With over 20 years’ expe­ri­ence Tri­na has worked exclu­sive­ly in the area of Fam­i­ly Law, ini­tial­ly as an advo­cate for clients of a com­mu­ni­ty legal cen­tre before…

Jan 13, 2021

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place vac­ci­na­tion with Brooke Corte on 2GB | 12 Jan­u­ary 2021

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the legal issues relat­ed to manda­to­ry work­place Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion with Brooke Corte on Mon­ey News on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 12 Jan­u­ary 2021 (from 24:45).Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…

Jan 11, 2021

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in The Aus­tralian | Year of liv­ing cau­tious­ly: return to work nor­mal­cy won’t hap­pen soon

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in The Aus­tralian on 11 Jan­u­ary in the recent arti­cle ​‘Year of liv­ing cau­tious­ly: return to work nor­mal­cy won’t hap­pen soon’.Read the full arti­cle here.…

Dec 17, 2020

UniLodge Aus­tralia Pty Ltd & Anor v the Own­ers Stra­ta plan 54026 [2020] NSW­CATCD | Costs decision

In a pre­vi­ous new arti­cle (here), Helen Kow­al – Part­ner and Sean Green­wood – Senior Asso­ciate, recent­ly act­ed for a lot owner/​building man­ag­er in a stra­ta appli­ca­tion to the NSW Civ­il and Admin­is­tra­tive Tri­bunal, suc­cess­ful­ly seek­ing orders for the removal of the exist­ing stra­ta com­mit­tee and for the com­pul­so­ry appoint­ment of a stra­ta man­ag­er…

Dec 15, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed work­place Christ­mas par­ties with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC | 14 Decem­ber 2020 (from 1:49:50)

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed work­place Christ­mas par­ties with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC | 14 Decem­ber 2020 (from 1:49:50)Lis­ten to the pod­cast here…