Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, “ ​‘Inevitable’: Employ­ment lawyers warn Indige­nous voice ​‘flash­point’ for work­er dis­putes”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 9 August 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, “ ​‘Inevitable’: Employ­ment lawyers warn Indige­nous voice ​‘flash­point’ for work­er dis­putes”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 9 August 2023, 

Com­pa­nies such as Qan­tas, Clay­ton Utz, Transur­ban, BHP, Rio Tin­to, NAB, Wool­worths, and Lendlease have pub­licly endorsed the voice and will advo­cate for the Yes cam­paign in the lead-up to the ref­er­en­dum at the tail end of this year. Michael Byrnes told The Aus­tralian employ­ees with an opin­ion that dif­fered from the pub­lic stance of their com­pa­ny will be a ​“flash­point” for employ­ment law as the vote nears. ​“If we live in a soci­ety where employ­ees have to mir­ror the views of their employ­er then this becomes a cor­po­rate dystopia,” he said. ​“Say I was a Qan­tas employ­ee, and I post­ed on my social media account some­thing anti-voice, and the social media account iden­ti­fied me as a Qan­tas employ­ee. That could be cause for dis­ci­pli­nary action.”

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