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Oct 14, 2020

Michael Byrnes fea­tured on 2GB — 13 Octo­ber 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the some­times vexed issue of what con­sti­tutes a ​“work­place rela­tion­ship” with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 13 Octo­ber 2020 (from 1:26:10).Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…

Oct 9, 2020

Mary Digiglio is speak­ing at the vir­tu­al #ACCAM20, the world’s largest gath­er­ing of in-house counsel.

Mary Digiglio, Man­ag­ing Part­ner Swaab along with David Field, Chief Legal Coun­sel Canon Ocea­nia and Greg de Moore, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try West­mead Hos­pi­tal are excit­ed to be pre­sent­ing on fos­ter­ing #well­ness in a law depart­ment envi­ron­ment at #ACCAM20 the world’s largest gath­er­ing of in-house coun­sel. On Wednes­day, Octo­ber 14, 4.30pm…

Oct 8, 2020

Mer­i­tas Week 2020 | Young Lawyer Advi­so­ry Board – Well­be­ing webi­nar for Mer­i­tas firms

In this ses­sion Mer­i­tas par­tic­i­pants will hear advice from senior lawyers from three dif­fer­ent coun­tries on how they han­dled com­pet­ing inter­ests ear­ly in their careers. They will also hear from an exec­u­tive coach that reg­u­lar­ly coach­es lawyers and oth­er pro­fes­sion­als on such issues. There will also be an oppor­tu­ni­ty to…

Sep 24, 2020

COVID-19 | Ten­an­cy Update

On 23 Sep­tem­ber 2020, the NSW Gov­ern­ment announced the Retail and oth­er Com­mer­cial Leas­es (COVID-19) Reg­u­la­tion (Reg­u­la­tion) will be extend­ed until 31 Decem­ber 2020. The Reg­u­la­tion, which was set to expire on 25 Octo­ber 2020, gives effect to the Nation­al Cab­i­net Manda­to­ry Code of Con­duct – SME Com­mer­cial Leas­ing Prin­ci­ples Dur­ing…

Sep 21, 2020

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients

Client feed­back and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment are impor­tant to us at Swaab and form a key com­po­nent of our Swaab Brand of Service.  The key find­ings included: we exceed­ed your expec­ta­tions when it comes to our performance you find us extreme­ly easy to work with, and  you are like­ly to rec­om­mend your key con­tact and…

Sep 15, 2020

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in HRM Online — 14 Sep­tem­ber 2020

A recent Fair Work Com­mis­sion case out­lines the dan­ger in assum­ing busi­ness issues caused by COVID-19 change employ­er oblig­a­tions. Read the com­plete arti­cle here.…

Sep 3, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the recent Fed­er­al Court deci­sion deal­ing with the right of employ­ees to take toi­let and drink breaks with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 2 Sep­tem­ber 2020.

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the recent Fed­er­al Court deci­sion deal­ing with the right of employ­ees to take toi­let and drink breaks with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 2 Sep­tem­ber 2020.Lis­ten to pod­cast click here.…

Aug 27, 2020

Angela Har­vey recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2020

As part of the Estate Plan­ning and Wealth Man­age­ment prac­tice, Ange­la’s expe­ri­ence includes asset pro­tec­tion, trusts, suc­ces­sion plan­ning, analysing estab­lished struc­tures, con­test­ed estates — includ­ing fam­i­ly pro­vi­sion mat­ters, fam­i­ly asset arrange­ments, and prepa­ra­tion of Wills, Pow­ers of Attor­ney and Endur­ing Guardian documents. Our ded­i­cat­ed pro­fes­sion­als have been select­ed because of their…

Aug 20, 2020

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in HRM Online — 19 August 2020

In the sec­ond of a two-part guide to over­pay­ments, HRM cov­ers the basics of the law, and how to best engage an over­paid employ­ee. View arti­cle here…

Aug 19, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the com­plex­i­ty of mod­ern awards and the IR sys­tem with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the com­plex­i­ty of mod­ern awards and the IR sys­tem with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 18 August 2020 (from 1:25:40) To lis­ten to the pod­cast click here…