Michael Byrnes

Exper­tise

• Employ­ment
• Work Health and Safety 

Sec­tors

• Finan­cial Services
• Health­care & Allied Health
• Hotels & Hospitality
• Man­u­fac­tur­ing & Industrials
• Nat­ur­al Resources
• Pri­vate Clients & Fam­i­ly Businesses
• Real Estate & Construction
• Retail & Wholesale
• Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al & Non-professional
• Tech­nol­o­gy & Media 

Expe­ri­ence

Since join­ing Swaab in 2018 I have act­ed on a broad range of mat­ters including:

• Advis­ing a com­pa­ny in the food pro­duc­tion indus­try on right of entry issues.
• Advis­ing a large clean­ing com­pa­ny on work­place arrangements.
• Advis­ing a high pro­file media com­pa­ny on var­i­ous employ­ment law matters.
• Advis­ing the board of a promi­nent gov­ern­ment agency on WHS issues relat­ing to man­age­ment of prin­ci­pal contractors.
• Act­ing for a list­ed com­pa­ny on the defence of a claim from a for­mer employ­ee in the Supreme Court.
• Act­ing for a large internet/​online com­pa­ny in defence of var­i­ous employ­ee claims in the AHRC and FWC.
• Advis­ing and act­ing for an equip­ment com­pa­ny on var­i­ous employ­ment issues includ­ing work­place sur­veil­lance and post-employ­ment conduct.
• Review­ing and draft­ing suites of employ­ment con­tracts for var­i­ous clients.
• Review­ing and draft­ing inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor agree­ments for var­i­ous clients.
• Strate­gic work­place rela­tions advice for var­i­ous clients.

Roles, mem­ber­ship and education

• Bach­e­lor of Laws (First Class Hon­ours) (Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, Syd­ney) 1994
• Bach­e­lor of Busi­ness (Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, Syd­ney) 1994
• Mem­ber of the Law Soci­ety of NSW
• Mem­ber of the Aus­tralian Human Resources Institute
• Mem­ber of the NSW Indus­tri­al Rela­tions Society
• Mem­ber of the Law Soci­ety of NSW Employ­ment Law Committee