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Fam­i­ly Law | What is Super­an­nu­a­tion Split­ting in Fam­i­ly Law?

When cou­ples sep­a­rate, there is often con­fu­sion about whether super­an­nu­a­tion becomes part of the prop­er­ty pool to be divided. The short answer is yes. Super­an­nu­a­tion has always been seen as a dif­fer­ent kind of asset to, for exam­ple, the mat­ri­mo­ni­al home. How­ev­er changes to the law in 2002 allow the Fam­i­ly Court to…

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner hosts cock­tail par­ty for Greg Weiss — Career365 and the launch of his three books

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner and team were delight­ed to host a cock­tail par­ty for the launch of Greg Weiss — Career365 three books, Career Clar­i­ty, Career Net­work­ing and Career Suc­cess whilst also rais­ing mon­ey for St Vin­cen­t’s Pri­vate Hos­pi­tal Heart Health…

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, dis­cussed manda­to­ry work­place Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion with Brooke Corte on the Mon­ey News pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC on 1 June 2021 (from 24:13):

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, dis­cussed manda­to­ry work­place Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion with Brooke Corte on the Mon­ey News pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC on 1 June 2021 (from 24:13):Click here the lis­ten to the podcast.…

Deliv­eroo case deliv­ers more uncer­tain­ty for the sta­tus of gig econ­o­my workers

In a deci­sion that fur­ther mud­dies the waters regard­ing when a work­er will be con­sid­ered an employ­ee for the pur­pose of access­ing statu­to­ry enti­tle­ments and, in this case, the unfair dis­missal régime, the FWC in the deci­sion of Fran­co v Deliv­eroo Aus­tralia Pty Ltd [2021] FWC 2818, has made a find­ing that a Deliv­eroo deliv­ery…

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, is quot­ed in the HRM Online arti­cle,​“Is gar­den­ing leave the best way to pro­tect a company’s inter­ests?”, pub­lished on 2 June 2021:

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, is quot­ed in the HRM Online arti­cle,​“Is gar­den­ing leave the best way to pro­tect a company’s inter­ests?”, pub­lished on 2 June 2021: Read the full arti­cle here…

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, dis­cussed manda­to­ry work­place vac­ci­na­tion on the ABC Radio Nation­al pro­gram, ​“This Work­ing Life”, on 7 June 2021 (from 15:55):

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, dis­cussed manda­to­ry work­place vac­ci­na­tion on the ABC Radio Nation­al pro­gram, ​“This Work­ing Life”, on 7 June 2021 (from 15:55): Click lis­ten to the pod­cast click here.…

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Ger­ald Carides

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Fam­i­ly Law | Draft law puts the spot­light on super

Super­an­nu­a­tion is in the Fam­i­ly Law spot­light with the announce­ment of a new infor­ma­tion-shar­ing pro­pos­al involv­ing the Aus­tralian Tax Office (ATO). New Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment leg­is­la­tion, if passed, will allow a par­ty to Fam­i­ly Court pro­ceed­ings to apply to the Court for access to ATO infor­ma­tion about a for­mer part­ner’s super­an­nu­a­tion inter­ests. It would…

Mary Digiglio — Man­ag­ing part­ner, quot­ed in The Aus­tralian arti­cle, Part­ner­ship sur­vey: Grow­ing firms ramp up demand for lawyers

Mary Digiglio — Man­ag­ing part­ner, quot­ed in The Aus­tralian arti­cle, Part­ner­ship sur­vey: Grow­ing firms ramp up demand for lawyers, pub­lished on 17 June 2021: Read full arti­cle here…

Changes to the Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act 1999

Res­i­den­tial home build­ing work car­ried out by a home builder for an own­er occu­pi­er home­own­er has (until very recent­ly as not­ed below) always been exempt from the secu­ri­ty of pay­ment régime in New South Wales.  How­ev­er, since 1 March 2021 res­i­den­tial builders have been able to resort to the Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try…

Gov­ern­ment Intro­duces Bill in Response to Land­mark AHRC Respect@Work Report

The Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment has intro­duced the Sex Dis­crim­i­na­tion and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amend­ment Bill 2021 (the Bill) in response to the Respect@Work Report (the Report) pre­sent­ed to the Gov­ern­ment by the Sex Dis­crim­i­na­tion Com­mis­sion­er, Kate Jenk­ins, in March last year. As part of its ​‘Roadmap for Respect’ ini­tia­tive…

Part­ner­ship sur­vey 2021

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Swaab revealed as the fastest grow­ing law firm in Aus­tralia 2021, an inter­view with Swaab’s Man­ag­ing part­ner, Mary Digiglio

Swaab’s Man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio said, ​“the firm’s major growth had been in prop­er­ty, but no areas were subdued”. Mary went onto say, ​“the fir­m’s growth in part­ner num­bers have been a direct result of the fir­m’s strat­e­gy. With increased demand from our clients and fore­cast­ed demand from our key indus­try sec­tors…

Swaab announces the pro­mo­tion of John Trinh to Senior Associate

The pro­mo­tion recog­nis­es John’s excel­lent legal skills cou­pled with his desire to pro­vide excep­tion­al client ser­vice. As an invalu­able part of our Cor­po­rate & Com­mer­cial Law team we look for­ward to recog­nis­ing John as he con­tin­ues to devel­op and grow as a senior practitioner. Con­grat­u­la­tions John…