Newslet­ters

6 Aug 2021

Swaab Con­nect | August 2021

Swaab is fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly, as we add a team from Gillis Delaney. Helen Kow­al, Part­ner and Chris­t­ian Marchant, Asso­ciate pro­vide fur­ther clar­i­fi­ca­tions on the orders apply­ing to the NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try Shut down. Michael Byrnes shares the 5 most com­mon legal issues fac­ing employ­ers in lock­down, while also dis­cussing manda­to­ry…

27 Nov 2020

Swaab Con­nect | Novem­ber 2020

With employ­er Christ­mas par­ties held against the back­drop of the glob­al Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, Michael Byrnes lists a few sen­si­ble steps that can help man­age the risk of ​‘Sil­ly Sea­son’ events. Michael also sheds some light on the legal posi­tion of com­pul­so­ry vac­ci­na­tions for employ­ees in the race to cre­ate a safe, effec­tive…

19 Nov 2020

Swaab Con­nect | Octo­ber 2020

Part­ner Eric Ziehlke out­lines how intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty can be iden­ti­fied, pro­tect­ed and exploit­ed in a cyber world. Employ­ment law Part­ner, Michael Byrnes explains the impor­tance of hav­ing a cur­rent, applic­a­ble employ­ment con­tracts in effect, fol­low­ing on from the recent deci­sion by the NSW Supreme Court and also sum­maris­es the main points of…

13 Oct 2020

Swaab Con­nect | Sep­tem­ber 2020

In this issue Part­ner Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es a recent deci­sion from the Fed­er­al Court which has, for the first time, held that employ­ees have a work­place right to use the toi­let and drink water while at work. Part­ner Eric Ziehlke out­lines how to avoid being exposed to copy­right infringe­ment and Helen Kow­al…

10 Sept 2020

Swaab Con­nect | August 2020

In this edi­tion Part­ner, Helen Kow­al dis­cuss­es build­ing defects in stra­ta schemes and what a stra­ta scheme should do to ensure their rights under the Home Build­ing Act 1989 (HBA). Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the duties owed by employ­ers to pro­tect the health and safe­ty of staff when sit­u­a­tions arise in rela­tion…

10 Aug 2020

Swaab Con­nect | July 2020

In this edi­tion of Swaab Con­nect we announce a strate­gic mile­stone with the inte­gra­tion of Hard­ings Lawyers and Swaab effec­tive 1 July. We con­grat­u­late Sean Green­wood on his pro­mo­tion to Senior Asso­ciate in our lit­i­ga­tion team, Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capen­er exam­ine the recent deci­sion by the Full Bench of the FWC…

30 June 2020

Swaab Con­nect | May 2020

We bring you the sec­ond install­ment of our Swaab Con­nect COVID-19 edi­tion as we aim to pro­vide you with a sum­ma­ry of our alerts, updates and pub­li­ca­tions to date, as well as pro­vide some insight on the effect of COVID-19 on Fam­i­ly, Prop­er­ty, Employ­ment Law and more…

19 May 2020

Swaab Con­nect | April 2020

This month we bring you a COVID-19 edi­tion of Swaab Con­nect as we aim to pro­vide you with a sum­ma­ry of our alerts, updates and pub­li­ca­tions to date, as well as pro­vide some insight on the effect of COVID-19 on Fam­i­ly, Prop­er­ty, Employ­ment Law and more…

19 Mar 2020

Swaab Con­nect | March 2020

In this edi­tion Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capen­er cre­ate a short guide the recent changes the Annu­alised Salaries under Mod­ern Awards effec­tive from 1 March 2020 and how the changes will impose more oner­ous admin­is­tra­tive require­ments on employ­ers. Senior Asso­ciate Monique Love­day pro­vides some insight to the things you should be aware…

3 Feb 2020

Swaab Con­nect | Jan­u­ary 2020

In our very first edi­tion of the decade Part­ner Helen Kow­al inter­views Struc­tur­al Engi­neer, Tadd Wal­ford to deliv­er the final instal­ment of the NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try Series which doc­u­ments dis­cus­sions with build­ing con­sul­tants who are in the know when it comes to the cur­rent state of the con­struc­tion indus­try. Sat­ur­day…