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Mar 6, 2019

Michael Byrnes appears on The Keep podcast

In this episode Michael covers: The cul­ture changes that must be imple­ment­ed with­in businessesThe social impact of the #Metoo movementWhy imple­ment­ing train­ing is important?The impact of pow­er struc­tures with­in the work­place- What is it and how does it work?Cre­at­ing the right process­es to fol­low when com­plaints are made and to fol­low through.Encour­ag­ing peo­ple to come for­ward…

Feb 8, 2019

Well­ness is core to our philosophy

Our phi­los­o­phy is that we employ the ​“whole per­son” not just the lawyer, the sup­port per­son or the man­ag­er. Our staff are peo­ple first and fore­most. The days of expect­ing peo­ple to leave their per­son­al lives at the door are gone. It is inap­pro­pri­ate to expect peo­ple to take phone…

Feb 8, 2019

2019 a year of oppor­tu­ni­ties and growth

Whilst increased com­pe­ti­tion, dis­rup­tion and con­sol­i­da­tion con­tin­ue to play out through­out the legal sec­tor, our posi­tion in the mar­ket place of serv­ing entre­pre­neurs, busi­ness­es, inno­va­tors, fam­i­lies offices, fam­i­lies and gov­ern­ment remains in grow­ing demand. High­lights includ­ed help­ing a glob­al client with their nation­al busi­ness mod­el roll-out, work­ing with a num­ber of prop­er­ty…

Jan 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes on radio 2GB and 4BC dis­cussing legal issues aris­ing from under­pay­ment of staff

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es legal issues aris­ing from under­pay­ment of staff on 2GB and 4BC. Lis­ten to the seg­ment here (from 56.00).…

Nov 19, 2018

Michael Byrnes on 2GB and 4BC dis­cussing legal issues aris­ing from work­place Christ­mas parties

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es legal issues aris­ing from work­place Christ­mas par­ties with Chris Ken­ny on 2GB and 4BC. Lis­ten to the seg­ment here (from 26.45).…

Sep 25, 2018

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es casu­al employ­ment on ​‘Mon­ey News’

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es casu­al employ­ment on the ​‘Mon­ey News’ pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC. Lis­ten to the inter­view here (from 37.30).…

Sep 14, 2018

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place bul­ly­ing on ​‘Mon­ey News’

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place bul­ly­ing on the ​‘Mon­ey News’ pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC. Lis­ten to the inter­view here (from 22.30).…

Jun 28, 2018

Swaab Attor­neys announces a record nine promotions

Swaab Attor­neys are delight­ed to announce the fol­low­ing inter­nal pro­mo­tions across the fir­m’s employ­ment, lit­i­ga­tion, IP & tech­nol­o­gy, com­mer­cial, cor­po­rate and prop­er­ty, plan­ning and projects teams, effec­tive 1 July 2018. Spe­cial Counsel · Wendy Con­ce­icao, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects · Stacey Collins, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects Senior Asso­ciate · Tim­o­thy Hard­wick, Litigation · Alyce John­son, Prop­er­ty…

Jan 15, 2018

New Part­ner Joins Employ­ment Team

Swaab are delight­ed to wel­come new part­ner Michael Byrnes to the fir­m’s Employ­ment Practice. Michael brings with him over 21 years’ expe­ri­ence in employ­ment law with a spe­cial­i­ty in Work­place rela­tions, Employ­ment and Safe­ty. Michael’s broad range of expe­ri­ence includes employ­ment con­tract nego­ti­a­tion, employ­ment law aspects of cor­po­rate trans­ac­tions and appear­ing as an…

Aug 4, 2016

Employ­ment Law Mat­ters fea­tures inter­view with Richard Ottley

Employ­ment Part­ner, Richard Ott­ley was recent­ly inter­viewed by Employ­ment Law Mat­ters sur­round­ing how much med­ical infor­ma­tion a HR pro­fes­sion­al can request. Read the full arti­cle here where Richard out­lines his top five pieces of advice and some recent cas­es that high­light the issue. Richard also tack­les the increas­ing­ly impor­tant issue of social…