News

9 Apr 2015

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Star­tupS­mart on Uber’s ​‘inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor’ arrangements 

The Unit­ed Nations enti­ty for gen­der equal­i­ty has with­drawn from a part­ner­ship with online taxi-book­ing ser­vice Uber. The move comes after the plan was slammed by the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion for rein­forc­ing ​“struc­tur­al inequal­i­ty” in the wake of reports of pas­sen­ger assaults by Uber dri­vers. ​“By clas­si­fy­ing dri­vers as ​‘inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors’…

23 Oct 2014

War­wick Ryan explains why work­place stress com­pen­sa­tion claims soar

Employ­ment part­ner War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on why the num­ber of employ­ees seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion over work­place-relat­ed stress is on the rise. Work­Cov­er data obtained by Fair­fax shows the aver­age indi­vid­ual com­pen­sa­tion pay­out for psy­cho­log­i­cal injuries has risen from $73,000 in 2008-09 to almost $90,000 in 2013 – 14.> READ THE ARTICLE…

25 Sept 2014

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on Qan­tas unfair dis­missal case

Swaab employ­ment part­ner War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on a recent­ly reject­ed unfair dis­missal claim which was made by a Qan­tas flight atten­dant with a his­to­ry of being drunk at work. Mar­got Crow­ley, who had worked for the air­line for just over 28 years, was sacked in Jan­u­ary after an inci­dent in which…

19 Sept 2014

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on Fair Work case

Swaab employ­ment law spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on the recent fair work case involv­ing a Mel­bourne radio sta­tion that must now back-pay two of their for­mer radio pre­sen­ters more than $60,000 in out­stand­ing wages and entitlements. While 3CW Chi­nese Radio Pty Ltd ini­tial­ly main­tained the for­mer pre­sen­ters were…

29 Aug 2014

Swaab in BBC arti­cle on ​‘Should anti-tat­too dis­crim­i­na­tion be illegal?’

Swaab employ­ment part­ner Richard Ott­ley’s arti­cle on ​‘Can an employ­er ban tat­toos in the work­place?’ has been fea­tured in BBC news mag­a­zine online. Richard’s arti­cle dis­cuss­es whether an employ­er can pre­vent tat­toos and high­lights dif­fer­ent inter­na­tion­al approach­es to tat­toos in the work­place.> READ THE ARTICLE…

17 Mar 2014

Swaab employ­ment part­ner fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on employ­ee underpayments

Swaab employ­ment part­ner, War­wick Ryan has fea­tured in a Smart­Com­pa­ny arti­cle cov­er­ing alleged under­pay­ment of 10 abat­toir work­ers in region­al NSW. In the arti­cle War­wick gives his take on the case and rea­sons why under­pay­ment can occur in small­er businesses. Read the article…

31 May 2013

Swaab part­ner talks employ­ment taboos

Swaab part­ner Richard Ott­ley appeared on ABC Radio Nation­al on a pan­el dis­cussing work­place taboos. Richard specif­i­cal­ly talked about swear­ing at work and the impli­ca­tions it can have on employ­ees and the work­place. > Lis­ten to the full discussion…

7 May 2013

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly

Swaab employ­ment part­ner War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner Pro­file. War­wick talks about why he enjoys his work at Swaab, ​“to me it’s being able to solve prob­lems for my clients that enable them to move for­ward with their lives and con­tin­ue to run suc­cess­ful businesses.” See…

12 June 2012

Swaab wel­comes new employ­ment lawyer

We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of new lawyer Lau­ra Sow­den to our employ­ment team. Pri­or to her arrival at Swaab, Lau­ra was Legal Case Man­ag­er in the NSW Appeals Unit at the Fed­er­al Court of Aus­tralia, where she was involved in case man­age­ment, research and pro­vid­ing analy­sis of com­plex…

16 June 2011

Swaab employ­ment lawyer writes on unfair dis­missal for Char­tered Sec­re­taries magazine

In this arti­cle Ter­mi­nat­ing an employ­ee — reduc­ing the risks of unfair dis­missal claims, employ­ment lawyer Bren­dan Tay­lor exam­ines recent unfair dis­missal cas­es and high­lights the need for employ­ers to keep detailed records and abide by prin­ci­ples of pro­ce­dur­al fairness…