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Mar 5, 2020

Inter­na­tion­al Wom­en’s Day 2020 #Each­forE­qual — Mary Digiglio

How has Swaab been so suc­cess­ful in achiev­ing gen­der diver­si­ty in a pro­fes­sion that has strug­gled for so long? The suc­cess of Swaab has been built on our cul­ture. Our firm has a his­to­ry of gen­der diver­si­ty, hav­ing being led by females. The female lead­ers have influ­enced our fir­m’s long his­to­ry of pro­mot­ing…

Mar 2, 2020

Michael Byrnes on 2GB — 28 Feb­ru­ary 2020 — Full Bench Fair Work Com­mis­sion appeal decision

Michael Byrnes with John Stan­ley — 28 Feb­ru­ary 2020…

Feb 13, 2020

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in HRM online — 12 Feb­ru­ary 2020 — Pro­ba­tion and the min­i­mum employ­ment peri­od – what’s the difference?

It’s a sim­ple dis­tinc­tion, but the lan­guage around ​‘pro­ba­tion’ still cre­ates con­fu­sion for non-experts. HRM tries to clear it up.Click here to take you to the article.…

Feb 7, 2020

Michael Byrnes on 2GB — 6 Feb­ru­ary 2020 — Coro­n­avirus: Do Qan­tas work­ers have the right to refuse to clean planes from China?

A Qan­tas employ­ee has report­ed­ly been stood down for telling clean­ers they didn’t have to clean planes that had come from Chi­na where the coro­n­avirus orig­i­nat­ed. Part­ner Michael Byrnes explains both sides of the argu­ment with Ben Ford­ham on 2GB.Lis­ten to the pod­cast here…

Dec 18, 2019

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the Lawyers Week­ly arti­cle: Reli­gious employ­ees in law firms ​‘should be cir­cum­spect’ about new bill

Employ­ment part­ner Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the Lawyers Week­ly arti­cle: Reli­gious employ­ees in law firms ​‘should be cir­cum­spect’ about new bill. Read the full arti­cle here.…

Dec 13, 2019

Lawyers Week­ly | Which firms believe in cli­mate change and take mean­ing­ful action?

The four ques­tions asked were: What is your firm’s response to the find­ings from the Ethics Index that 90 per cent of Aus­tralians see an urgent eth­i­cal oblig­a­tion for busi­ness­es such as law firms to act on cli­mate change?Does your firm accept the set­tled sci­ence of cli­mate change on the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment, as…

Dec 6, 2019

Michael Byrnes appeared on ​‘Nights with John Stan­ley’ host­ed by John Stanley

Michael Byrnes appeared on ​‘Nights with John Stan­ley’ on 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 2CC last night 5 Decem­ber 2019 to dis­cuss the set­tle­ment of the Israel Folau case and work­place Christ­mas par­ties (from 1:56:00).Lis­ten to the record­ing here.…

Dec 4, 2019

Final Touch­es being made on New Build­ing Laws: What you need to know

Part­ner, Helen Kow­al is fea­tured in the Com­mer­cial Prop­er­ty Guide on 26 Novem­ber 2019 to pro­vide insight about the new lay­er of rules and reg­u­la­tions which is about to be added to the busi­ness of con­struct­ing new build­ings, and design­ers, builders and archi­tects are being advised to famil­iarise them­selves with…

Nov 26, 2019

2019 Aus­tralian Legal Sec­tor Alliances (AusLSA) Member’s Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Update

The 2019 AusLSA Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Update pro­vides an in-depth overview of the col­lab­o­ra­tive and indi­vid­ual efforts of 32 Aus­tralian legal prac­tices. This con­tributes to a more sus­tain­able legal sec­tor through their peo­ple, com­mu­ni­ty, envi­ron­men­tal and gov­er­nance ini­tia­tives. Man­ag­ing and report­ing a full range of sus­tain­abil­i­ty issues is a grow­ing fea­ture of suc­cess­ful Aus­tralian and…

Nov 21, 2019

Minds Count Lec­ture 2019

This year, the lec­ture was deliv­ered by David West­gate. David is a bipo­lar busi­ness­man, writer and men­tal health advo­cate and has had a long career as a high-fly­ing busi­ness­man work­ing in the field of adver­tis­ing. David decid­ed to blend his pas­sion and career to become a keynote speak­er for the Black Dog Insti­tute after…