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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)…

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…

Apr 27, 2020

COVID-19 | Retail and Oth­er Com­mer­cial Leas­es (COVID-19) Reg­u­la­tion 2020

Below is a sum­ma­ry of the Regulation. What does it do? The object of the Reg­u­la­tion is to give effect to the Code and par­tic­u­lar­ly to: pro­hib­it and reg­u­late the usu­al enforce­ment rights of land­lords dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic peri­od; andrequire land­lords and ten­ants to rene­go­ti­ate the rent and oth­er terms of retail, com­mer­cial and…

Apr 24, 2020

COVID-19 | Wit­ness­ing the exe­cu­tion of doc­u­ments dur­ing the pandemic

What’s news in New South Wales? The Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Amend­ment (COVID-19 Wit­ness­ing of Doc­u­ments) Reg­u­la­tion 2020 (NSW) The COVID-19 Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment (Emer­gency Mea­sures) Act 2020 (NSW) includ­ed a reg­u­la­tion-mak­ing pow­er in sec­tion 17 of Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Act 2000 (NSW) (the Act) to pro­vide for altered arrange­ments for the sig­na­ture, wit­ness­ing or attes­ta­tion…

Apr 22, 2020

COVID-19 Pod­cast | Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Job­Keep­er scheme on 2GB

Part­ner Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the Job­Keep­er scheme with Brooke Corte and Scott Hay­wood on Mon­ey News on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC on 21 April 2020 (from 33.50). Link below.Michael Byrnes on 2GB — Tues­day 21 April 2020…

Apr 2, 2020

Fam­i­ly law team con­tin­ue to assist you dur­ing COVID-19

At the moment there are real con­cerns about cur­rent par­ent­ing orders and how they oper­ate in the COVID-19 cli­mate. It is pos­si­ble to vary or sus­pend cur­rent Orders and there are also cir­cum­stances where non-com­pli­ance with Orders can be accept­able if that non-com­pli­ance is rea­son­able. Par­ents are required to do…