News

Dec 15, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed work­place Christ­mas par­ties with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC | 14 Decem­ber 2020 (from 1:49:50)

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed work­place Christ­mas par­ties with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC | 14 Decem­ber 2020 (from 1:49:50)Lis­ten to the pod­cast here…

Dec 7, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es with HRM | What’s a ​‘com­plaint’? $1 mil­lion Fed­er­al Court appeal holds lessons for HR

A dete­ri­o­rat­ing rela­tion­ship between an HR leader and an exec­u­tive led to a rul­ing against their com­pa­ny. The appeal reveals how com­plex work­place law can be.Read full arti­cle here…

Dec 7, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es with HRM | Can work­places man­date COVID-19 vaccines?

Work­places are con­tem­plat­ing how to nav­i­gate a vac­cine and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of man­dat­ing it for employ­ees. Because of this, all eyes were on the Fair Work Com­mis­sion as it recent­ly con­sid­ered the case of an ear­ly child­hood teacher who was ter­mi­nat­ed for not get­ting the flu vaccine. Read full arti­cle here …

Dec 2, 2020

Michael Byrnes & Emi­ly Capen­er are quot­ed in Lawyers Week­ly | Can law firms man­date COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tions for employees?

In prepar­ing the office for returns to work en masse, one poten­tial option law firms may be think­ing about is the loom­ing vac­cine for COVID-19, which — accord­ing to Health Min­is­ter Greg Hunt — should be avail­able to Aus­tralians in approx­i­mate­ly four months’ time. Such a direc­tive from legal employ­ers, Swaab…

Nov 10, 2020

Hol­i­day Office Clo­sure 2020

If you need to speak with one of our lawyers, please call +61 2 9233 5544. We wish you a hap­py hol­i­days and a pros­per­ous new year!…

Sep 21, 2020

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients

Client feed­back and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment are impor­tant to us at Swaab and form a key com­po­nent of our Swaab Brand of Service.  The key find­ings included: we exceed­ed your expec­ta­tions when it comes to our performance you find us extreme­ly easy to work with, and  you are like­ly to rec­om­mend your key con­tact and…

Sep 3, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the recent Fed­er­al Court deci­sion deal­ing with the right of employ­ees to take toi­let and drink breaks with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 2 Sep­tem­ber 2020.

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the recent Fed­er­al Court deci­sion deal­ing with the right of employ­ees to take toi­let and drink breaks with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 2 Sep­tem­ber 2020.Lis­ten to pod­cast click here.…

Jul 31, 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the WHS law issues relat­ing to food deliv­ery rid­ers and gig econ­o­my workers

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Work Health & Safe­ty (WHS) law issues relat­ing to food deliv­ery rid­ers and gig econ­o­my work­ers gen­er­al­ly with John Stan­ley and Paul B. Kidd on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 30 July 2020 (from 41:40) To lis­ten to the pod­cast click here…

Jun 12, 2020

Updates to NSW WHS Laws: A Brief Overview by Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capener

WHS Laws: A Brief Overview On 4 June 2020, NSW Par­lia­ment passed the Work Health and Safe­ty Amend­ment (Review) Bill 2020 (the Amend­ment Bill) which intro­duced var­i­ous changes to WHS laws under the NSW Work Health and Safe­ty Act 2001 (the Act). These changes, the most sig­nif­i­cant of which are briefly out­lined…

Apr 24, 2020

COVID-19 | Wit­ness­ing the exe­cu­tion of doc­u­ments dur­ing the pandemic

What’s news in New South Wales? The Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Amend­ment (COVID-19 Wit­ness­ing of Doc­u­ments) Reg­u­la­tion 2020 (NSW) The COVID-19 Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment (Emer­gency Mea­sures) Act 2020 (NSW) includ­ed a reg­u­la­tion-mak­ing pow­er in sec­tion 17 of Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Act 2000 (NSW) (the Act) to pro­vide for altered arrange­ments for the sig­na­ture, wit­ness­ing or attes­ta­tion…