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War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on recent debate over ​‘Aus­tralia will end up ​“like Greece” comment’

Fol­low­ing the release of the Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty Com­mis­sion draft report on the work­place rela­tions frame­work, Don Argus, for­mer chair­man of BHP Bil­li­ton, told Fair­fax media that the Aus­tralian work­place rela­tions sys­tem needs to be improved or the coun­try will end up ​“like Greece”. The reform sug­gests a change in penal­ty rates, unfair dis­missal…

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on recent $56,000 back-pay case 

Employ­ment law spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on a recent employ­ment case where an accom­mo­da­tion busi­ness was required to back-pay employ­ees after the busi­ness told for­mer staff they were not oblig­ed to make redun­dan­cy pay­ments because the busi­ness was in finan­cial trouble.  Four women employed in front-counter and house­keep­ing…

Swaab Attor­neys Earns Recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, a Glob­al Alliance of Inde­pen­dent Busi­ness Law Firms

Swaab Attor­neys today announced that it has been award­ed recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent busi­ness law firms. Swaab joined Mer­i­tas in 2009, and as a con­di­tion of its mem­ber­ship, is required to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete recer­ti­fi­ca­tion every three years. Mer­i­tas is the only law firm alliance with an estab­lished and com­pre­hen­sive means…

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Star­tUpS­mart on Uber’s Con­trac­tor vs Employ­ee ruling

The Cal­i­forn­ian employ­er watch­dog has deter­mined that Uber dri­vers should be clas­si­fied as employ­ees, not as inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors, and are there­fore enti­tled to reimbursements. Uber is appeal­ing the deci­sion as it refers to its dri­vers as ​“part­ner dri­vers”, mean­ing they are inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors that should pay their own expenses. Employ­ment law…

James Skel­ton announced final­ist in Lawyers Week­ly 30 under 30 awards

Swaab IP & Tech­nol­o­gy lawyer, James Skel­ton, has been announced a final­ist in the 2015 Lawyers Week­ly 30 under 30 awards in the Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty category. Now in its third year, ​‘30 Under 30’ sta­tus has been a spring­board for career pro­gres­sion for many young lawyers, giv­ing indus­try-wide recog­ni­tion for pro­fes­sion­al com­pe­tence while high­light­ing…

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Star­tupS­mart on Uber’s ​‘inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor’ arrangements 

The Unit­ed Nations enti­ty for gen­der equal­i­ty has with­drawn from a part­ner­ship with online taxi-book­ing ser­vice Uber. The move comes after the plan was slammed by the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion for rein­forc­ing ​“struc­tur­al inequal­i­ty” in the wake of reports of pas­sen­ger assaults by Uber dri­vers. ​“By clas­si­fy­ing dri­vers as ​‘inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors’…

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