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Jun 5, 2020

The building defects crisis | Q&A webinar

Helen will be joined by our lead­ing experts across a range of areas from archi­tec­ture, engi­neer­ing, water­proof­ing, fire and cladding to dis­cuss all aspects that are impact­ing on con­struc­tion indus­try, where we are going wrong, what we are doing right and what we need to do to min­imise the prob­lems that…

Jun 4, 2020

Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capen­er are fea­tured in an inter­view with Lawyers Week­ly — 4 June 2020

Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capen­er dis­cuss how to respond to employ­ees on Job­Keep­er who refuse to return to work. Read full inter­view here.…

May 22, 2020

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in The Dri­ve Pro­gram on Radio Nation­al — 21 May 2020

Michael Byrnes talks with Patri­cia Karve­las on the Dri­ve Pro­gram about the Work­plac v Rossato case deal­ing with casu­al employ­ees. Lis­ten to the inter­view here…

May 20, 2020

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in The Law Report on Radio Nation­al — 19 May 2020

Covid-19 emer­gency respons­es for wit­ness­ing wills and redun­dan­cy pay­outs. And a win for trau­ma­tised US Face­book con­tent moderators.Lis­ten to the inter­view here.…

May 11, 2020

COVID-19 | 3 rea­sons for the increase in unfair dis­missal claims

The FWC has seen a huge increase in unfair dis­missal claims. HRM asks Michael Brynes why this might be and what HR should be doing.View arti­cle here.…

May 7, 2020

COVID-19 Pod­cast | Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Job­Keep­er Scheme with John Stan­ley 2GB

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Job­Keep­er Scheme (and the legal aspects of rug­by league coach Wayne Ben­net­t’s hair­style edict!) with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 6 May 2020 (from 1:31.50).Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…

May 7, 2020

COVID-19 | Mak­ing it eas­i­er for busi­ness to oper­ate dur­ing COVID-19

Meet­ings As of 6 May 2020, com­pa­nies in Aus­tralia will be able to con­vene annu­al gen­er­al meet­ings and oth­er meet­ings pre­scribed under the Cor­po­ra­tions Act 2001 entire­ly online rather than face-to-face thanks to the Cor­po­ra­tions (Coro­n­avirus (Coro­n­avirus Eco­nom­ic Response) Deter­mi­na­tion (No.1) 2020.As con­tem­plat­ed in para­graph 5 of the Deter­mi­na­tion a com­pa­ny that has…

May 6, 2020

COVID-19 Update | Omnibus (Emer­gency Mea­sures) (Com­mer­cial Leas­es and Licences) Reg­u­la­tions | 5 May 2020

On 1 May 2020 Vic­to­ria passed the COVID-19 Omnibus (Emer­gency Mea­sures) (Com­mer­cial Leas­es and Licences) Reg­u­la­tions 2020 (Reg­u­la­tions) to imple­ment the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of laws relat­ing to cer­tain retail leas­es and non-retail com­mer­cial leas­es and licences.Code not incorporatedDespite the Nation­al Cab­i­net Manda­to­ry Code of Con­duct — SME Com­mer­cial Leas­ing Prin­ci­ples dur­ing COVID-19 (Code)…

May 4, 2020

COVID-19 Pod­cast | Work­place law issues aris­ing from the COVID­Safe App

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed work­place law issues aris­ing from the COVID­Safe app with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 30 April 2020 (from 1.44:15). Lis­ten to the pod­cast here.…

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…