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Update | NSW Gov­ern­ment Man­date Affect­ing the Con­struc­tion Industry

On Sat­ur­day 17 July 2021, the NSW Gov­ern­ment issued a man­date which has brought a halt to all non-essen­tial, non-emer­gency con­struc­tion projects until 30 July 2021. This extends from large scale infra­struc­ture projects to res­i­den­tial ren­o­va­tions. As a result, many of those with­in the con­struc­tion indus­try and the sup­pli­er chain may be affect­ed…

New Restric­tions in Place for NSW Work­ers | Update

By Michael Byrnes, Part­ner and Kat­ri­na Seck, Senior Associate Effec­tive 18 July 2021, the New South Wales Gov­ern­ment has tight­ened stay at home orders in place across the Greater Syd­ney area (includ­ing the Blue Moun­tains, Cen­tral Coast, Wol­lon­gong and Shell­har­bour) in response to esca­lat­ing COVID-19 num­bers and expo­sure sites. The new…

Covid-19 | Update

With the impact of NSW Gov­ern­ment restric­tions on move­ment and busi­ness clo­sures con­tin­u­ing to evolve due to the spread of Covid-19, we have set up a por­tal for busi­ness own­ers to be able to get the lat­est guid­ance on legal issues that will arise over the com­ing weeks.  BUSI­NESS CON­TRACTS Force MajeureBusi­ness…

Deal­ing with the NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try shut down — man­ag­ing exist­ing works

On 17 July 2021, the NSW Gov­ern­ment amend­ed the Pub­lic Health (Covid-19 Tem­po­rary Move­ment and Gath­er­ing Restric­tions) Order 2021 (the Orders) to deal with the ongo­ing out­break of the Covid-19 Delta vari­ant in the Greater Syd­ney area. The net impact of the inser­tion of claus­es 22(4A) and 24AB is that the…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the HRM Online arti­cle, ​“5 com­mon legal issues for employ­ers in lock­down”, pub­lished on 22 July 2021

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the HRM Online arti­cle, ​“5 com­mon legal issues for employ­ers in lock­down”, pub­lished on 22 July 2021. To read the full arti­cle click here…

Qual­i­fi­ca­tions a floor, but not a ceil­ing, for award cov­er­age: FCAFC

In a deci­sion that has affirmed what those work­ing in the indus­tri­al rela­tions space already knew – that fit­ting an employ­ee’s role into an award clas­si­fi­ca­tion is hard – a full court of the Fed­er­al Court in King v Mel­bourne Vicen­tre Swim­ming Club Inc [2021] FCAFC 123 has over­turned a deci­sion of Jus­tice Whee­la­han that…

Pro­posed Changes to Con­struc­tion Shut­down Orders under Pub­lic Health (Covid-19 Tem­po­rary Move­ment and Gath­er­ing Restric­tions) Order 2021

Whilst we are await­ing con­fir­ma­tion in writ­ing of the pro­posed changes, the NSW Gov­ern­ment today announced amend­ments to the Orders to allow con­struc­tions sites with­in the Greater Syd­ney to recom­mence works as of 31 July 2021. How­ev­er, there will be much greater con­trol on the atten­dance of employ­ees, con­trac­tors and…

Con­struc­tion Shut Down Update – Recom­mis­sion­ing or Com­mence­ment works allowed on cer­tain Con­struc­tion Sites as of 29 July 2021

On 28 July 2021, the Min­is­ter passed amend­ments to clause 24AB intro­duced on 18 July 2021 under the Pub­lic Health (Covid-19 Tem­po­rary Move­ment and Gath­er­ing Restric­tions) Amend­ment (No 16) Order 2021 (the Orders), adding an addi­tion­al clause to allow Con­trac­tors in the Greater Syd­ney area to per­form recom­mis­sion­ing works on…

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NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try Shut Down – Par­tial re-open­ing as of 31 July 2021

On Wednes­day 28 July 2021, the NSW Pre­mier took steps to re-open cer­tain con­struc­tion sites in parts of Greater Syd­ney fol­low­ing the ear­li­er con­struc­tion indus­try shut down orders which came into effect on 17 July 2021. Amend­ments have been made by the Pub­lic Health (COVID-19 Tem­po­rary Move­ment and Gath­er­ing Restric­tions) Amend­ment…

Fur­ther clar­i­fi­ca­tions PDF

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NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try Shut Down – Fur­ther Clar­i­fi­ca­tions | 6 August 2021

In brief:cer­tain works can recom­mence on con­struc­tion sites which are deemed both unoc­cu­pied and occu­pied sites out­side of ​‘affect­ed areas’.* While the restric­tions on un-occu­pied con­struc­tion sites have been relaxed some­what, there are still heavy restric­tions at occu­pied places of residence.  Works per­formed at occu­pied places of res­i­dence must be ​‘nec­es­sary’ and…

Swaab Con­nect | August 2021

Swaab is fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly, as we add a team from Gillis Delaney. Helen Kow­al, Part­ner and Chris­t­ian Marchant, Asso­ciate pro­vide fur­ther clar­i­fi­ca­tions on the orders apply­ing to the NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try Shut down. Michael Byrnes shares the 5 most com­mon legal issues fac­ing employ­ers in lock­down, while also dis­cussing manda­to­ry…

Michael Byrnes appeared on the Sky News report, ​“Vac­cine man­date could be tip­ping point for employ­ees”, on 6 August 2021

Michael Byrnes appeared on the Sky News report, ​“Vac­cine man­date could be tip­ping point for employ­ees”, on 6 August 2021. As Union lead­ers are warn­ing man­dat­ing vac­cines will lead to work­ers walk­ing off the job across sev­er­al indus­tries already suf­fer­ing from staff shortages. The pre­dic­tion comes as more employ­ers con­sid­er mak­ing the inoc­u­la­tion…

Swaab Con­nect | Feb­ru­ary 2021

Marc Bad­dams and Sean Green­wood pro­vide an update to changes to statu­to­ry demands from 1 Jan­u­ary 2021. Helen Kow­al pro­vides a fur­ther COVID-19 Ten­an­cy update. While Kat­ri­na Seck pro­vides a FWCFB update on the infor­ma­tion employ­ers are required to pro­vide employ­ees for an agree­ment to be ​‘gen­uine­ly agreed’. We also wel­come three new…