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State reg­u­la­tions say you could direct employ­ees back to the work­place – but should you?

HRM dives into the legal and moral con­sid­er­a­tions around forc­ing employ­ees to return to the phys­i­cal work­place. Michael Byrnes fea­tured in HRM Online 25 Jan­u­ary 2021. Click here to read the full article.…

Mer­i­tas — An Intro­duc­tion to Wills & Estates in Aus­tralia & New Zealand

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Can you be sacked if you refuse a COVID-19 vac­cine? And is neglect­ing an over­dosed friend a crime?

Two recent unfair dis­missal cas­es may pro­vide some insight into whether employ­ers can sack work­ers who refuse a COVID-19 vaccination. Also, a recent deci­sion in the NSW Court of Appeal upholds a manslaugh­ter con­vic­tion involv­ing a fail­ure to help a friend who need­ed urgent med­ical help. Click here to lis­ten to the ABC’s Law Report pod­cast…

UPDATE | Changes to statu­to­ry demands from 1 Jan­u­ary 2021

Marc Bad­dams and Sean Green­wood pro­vide an update fol­low­ing on from the recent arti­cle Changes to statu­to­ry demands from 1 Jan­u­ary 2021 post­ed on 23 Decem­ber 2021.Update The Cor­po­ra­tions Amend­ment (Cor­po­rate Insol­ven­cy Reforms) Act 2020 (Cth) (the Act), com­menced on 1 Jan­u­ary 2021. The Act pro­vides, among oth­er things, that for a three month…

Press Release | New Senior Appoint­ment for Swaab

Julie Briscoe – Part­ner, Prop­er­ty and Com­mer­cial Law, spe­cialis­es in all aspects of com­mer­cial and retail prop­er­ty law, while also hav­ing exten­sive expe­ri­ence in cor­po­rate and trust struc­tur­ing and finance trans­ac­tions. With over 20 years’ expe­ri­ence Julie joins our ever-grow­ing prop­er­ty and com­mer­cial team.  To meet our clients increas­ing needs and as…

Unpack­ing the ALP’s pro­posed portable leave policy

To read the full arti­cle click here.…

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in The Aus­tralian | To vax or not: work­ers’ rights in the age of Covid

Michael Byrnes — Part­ner, Employ­ment & Work­place Health and Safe­ty is quot­ed in The Aus­tralian, To vax or not: work­ers’ rights in the age of Covid.Read the full arti­cle here…

Tour de Cure

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Helen Kowal’s arti­cle pub­lished in Source​able​.net | Final­ly, Bet­ter Build­ing Prac­tices are Being Enforced

Back in 2019, frus­trat­ed in my pro­fes­sion as to how many build­ing defects appear in mul­ti-storey res­i­den­tial build­ings short­ly after con­struc­tion lead­ing to mul­ti-mil­lions of dol­lars being spent on reme­di­al repairs, I spent the year inter­view­ing expert build­ing con­sul­tants as to their views on the state of play in con­struc­tion and…

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place vac­ci­na­tion with Ben Ford­ham On 2GB | 23 Feb­ru­ary 2021

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the legal issues relat­ed to manda­to­ry work­place Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion with Ben Ford­ham on 2GB on 23 Feb­ru­ary 2021.Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with Esther Khoo

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with James Skelton

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with John Trinh

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

An Intro­duc­tion to Wills & Estates in Aus­tralia & New Zealand

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Michael Byrnes quot­ed in HRM Online arti­cle | Free­dom of speech in the work­place: a legal refresher

Michael Byrnes — Part­ner, Employ­ment & Work­place Health and Safe­ty is quot­ed in HRM Online arti­cle, Free­dom of speech in the work­place: a legal refresh­er, pub­lished 2 March 2021Read the full arti­cle here…