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Sep­a­ra­tion Post COVID 19 – Relo­ca­tion of chil­dren and the impor­tance of plan­ning now

Sep­a­ra­tion is tough! Espe­cial­ly when there are chil­dren involved but add a pan­dem­ic into the mix and it is next level. In these uncer­tain times it may feel as though you have lit­tle con­trol over your sep­a­ra­tion par­tic­u­lar­ly if you are want­i­ng to move with the chil­dren. With the COVID-19 restric­tions eas­ing…

Stra­ta Schemes Gen­er­al Meet­ings in light of COVID-19

It has just been announced that the NSW Par­lia­ment is con­sid­er­ing reforms to the Stra­ta Schemes Man­age­ment Act 2015 (SSMA) to remove the need for face-to-face meet­ings and allow own­ers cor­po­ra­tions to oper­ate elec­tron­i­cal­ly. In the mean­time, own­ers cor­po­ra­tions are still required com­ply with their oblig­a­tions to hold meet­ings in…

COVID-19 | First Job­Keep­er Deci­sion Clar­i­fies Annu­al Leave Request

In McCreedy v Vil­lage Road­show Theme Parks Pty Ltd [2020] FWC 2480, the Fair Work Com­mis­sion hand­ed down its first deci­sion deal­ing with a dis­pute aris­ing under the Job­Keep­er scheme.  The appli­cant, Ms McCreedy, had been employed by Vil­lage Road­show Theme Parks Pty Ltd (Vil­lage Road­show) on a part time basis, work­ing around 15 hours…

COVID-19 | The Fed­er­al Court rules on per­son­al leave dur­ing stand down

In the deci­sion Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Elec­tri­cal, Elec­tron­ic, Ener­gy, Infor­ma­tion, Postal, Plumb­ing and Allied Ser­vices Union of Aus­tralia v Qan­tas Air­ways Lim­it­ed [2020] FCA 656, hand­ed down on 18 May 2020, Jus­tice Flick of the Fed­er­al Court ruled that employ­ees are not enti­tled to access paid personal/​carer’s leave or com­pas­sion­ate leave dur­ing a peri­od…

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…

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in The Law Report on Radio Nation­al — 19 May 2020

Covid-19 emer­gency respons­es for wit­ness­ing wills and redun­dan­cy pay­outs. And a win for trau­ma­tised US Face­book con­tent moderators.Lis­ten to the inter­view here.…

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in The Dri­ve Pro­gram on Radio Nation­al — 21 May 2020

Michael Byrnes talks with Patri­cia Karve­las on the Dri­ve Pro­gram about the Work­plac v Rossato case deal­ing with casu­al employ­ees. Lis­ten to the inter­view here…

Michael Tree­by

Exper­tiseCom­mer­cialCor­po­rate Estate Plan­ning & WillsProp­er­ty…

Col­in Skelton

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Lynette Har­ri­son

Exper­tiseCon­struc­tion FinanceProp­er­tyStra­ta…

Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capen­er are fea­tured in an inter­view with Lawyers Week­ly — 4 June 2020

Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capen­er dis­cuss how to respond to employ­ees on Job­Keep­er who refuse to return to work. Read full inter­view here.…

The building defects crisis | Q&A webinar

Helen will be joined by our lead­ing experts across a range of areas from archi­tec­ture, engi­neer­ing, water­proof­ing, fire and cladding to dis­cuss all aspects that are impact­ing on con­struc­tion indus­try, where we are going wrong, what we are doing right and what we need to do to min­imise the prob­lems that…

Statu­to­ry Enti­tle­ments for ​‘Casu­al’ Employ­ees: Anoth­er Work­Pac Decision

The Full Court of the Fed­er­al Court recent­ly hand­ed down a deci­sion con­firm­ing that employ­ees cat­e­gorised and paid as ​“casu­als” with reg­u­lar and sys­tem­at­ic work­ing pat­terns might be enti­tled to receive the paid leave enti­tle­ments of a per­ma­nent employee.  This deci­sion, Work­Pac Pty Ltd v Rossato [2020] FCAFC 84 (Rossato), close­ly fol­lows the deci­sion…

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…

Fair Work Com­mis­sion Full Bench Con­firms Gig Work­er’s Status

The sta­tus of gig econ­o­my work­ers has been a source of exten­sive debate in recent years. Michael Byrnes, Part­ner and Emi­ly Capen­er, Solic­i­tor exam­ine a recent deci­sion by the Full Bench of the Fair Work Com­mis­sion which con­firmed that deliv­ery dri­vers work­ing for gig econ­o­my giant Uber Eats are not employees. In Ami­ta…