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Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“FDV leave means mas­sive Fair Work reforms”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 30 May 2022:

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“FDV leave means mas­sive Fair Work reforms”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 30 May 2022: To read the full arti­cle click here …

Swaab ranked amongst the high­est on part­ner­ship gen­der equality

The sur­vey high­light­ed the num­ber of female equi­ty part­ners in Aus­tralian law firms still hov­er around on aver­age 27 per cent. Swaab’s Man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio said,​“We have been able to achieve this bal­ance of gen­der equi­ty organ­i­cal­ly, with­out the need for quo­tas using a mer­it based sys­tem that recog­nis­es an…

Mary Digiglio is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​“Entre­pre­neur­ial, inde­pen­dent, nim­ble: small­er firms can thrive”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 7 June 2022

Head­count is tight by choice, the deci­sion not to expand beyond Syd­ney is also by choice. Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio said, ​“We are nim­ble, we can do what­ev­er we want, there is a rel­a­tive lack of red tape and we are only account­able to each oth­er” Mary went onto say, ​“this…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Sav­ing mon­ey by WFH: Who’s ben­e­fit­ing and how”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 10 June 2022:

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Sav­ing mon­ey by WFH: Who’s ben­e­fit­ing and how”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 10 June 2022: To read the full arti­cle click here…

Swaab Strat­e­gy Week­end 2022 Kiama

This was a valu­able oppor­tu­ni­ty for the team to work­shop, brain­storm and bond under the watch­ful guid­ance and facil­i­ta­tion of Sue-Ella Prodonovich from Prodonovich Advi­so­ry. The aim of the week­end was to review the suc­cess of our per­for­mance over the past two years and set our strate­gic direc­tion for 2023. From…

5.2% Increase to Nation­al Min­i­mum Wage

As part of its Annu­al Wage Review for 2021 / 2022, an Expert Pan­el of the Fair Work Com­mis­sion (FWC) has today announced a 5.2% increase in the nation­al min­i­mum wage. That means it will be $812.60 (or $21.38 per hour) from 1 July 2022. This rep­re­sents a marked increase from the 2.5%…

The evo­lu­tion of a legal team, intro­duc­ing Swaab’s team ser­vic­ing the prop­er­ty industry

The pace of trans­for­ma­tion, increased vol­ume and com­plex­i­ty of projects has con­tin­ued unabat­ed with­in the prop­er­ty sec­tor. As one of the fir­m’s fastest grow­ing teams, our team ser­vic­ing the prop­er­ty indus­try has seen a grow­ing demand over the past 24-months across the full spec­trum of prop­er­ty services. Diver­si­fi­ca­tion and the intro­duc­tion of…

Press Release | New Senior Appoint­ment — Nicholas Hufton

“As we con­tin­ue to grow, this appoint­ment comes at an excit­ing time for Swaab’s Stra­ta and Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects team. Nicholas’ appoint­ment serves to bol­ster our already impres­sive stra­ta, prop­er­ty and con­struc­tion capa­bil­i­ties. This strate­gic appoint­ment builds on our strong focus on cul­ture, well­be­ing and client ser­vice. I wish to for­mal­ly…

Tour de Cure Snow Ball 2022 Black Tie Gala Event

The mid year Ball raised over $1.8m in dona­tions and is the char­i­ties mid year gala black tie fund rais­ing event. The event brings togeth­er more than 1,100 guests, celebri­ty and sup­port­ers, enabling Sydney’s phil­an­thropic com­mu­ni­ty and lead­ing cor­po­rate organ­i­sa­tions to come togeth­er for the com­mon goal of rais­ing funds…

Exclu­sive Hugo Wines Tast­ing Client Event | 22 June 2022

Clients, Paul West­on, Cameron Gray, Daniel Mat­ta from DW Advi­so­ry, Matthew Erwin, Cash­man Con­sult­ing and Steven Mar­tin, Mar­tin & Orr and Swaab part­ners, lawyers and sup­port staff were treat­ed to an inti­mate and exclu­sive wine tast­ing event that high­light­ed Hugo Wines new releas­es and sev­er­al well known wines.  To con­tact William Hugo…

Con­grat­u­la­tions | Swaab announces the pro­mo­tion of Kat­ri­na Seck to Spe­cial Coun­sel and Car­ly Lennan to Senior Associate

Kat­ri­na has been with the firm since Jan­u­ary 2021, spe­cial­is­ing in Employ­ment and Work Health & Safe­ty law along­side part­ner Michael Byrnes. While Car­ly has been with the firm since May 2017, spe­cial­is­ing in com­plex prop­er­ty and leas­ing work with­in the Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects team along­side part­ner Mary Digiglio.  Both pro­mo­tions…

Land­mark State­ment on the Rights of Gig Econ­o­my Workers

Uber and the Trans­port Work­ers Union (TWU) have signed a joint State­ment of Prin­ci­ples that calls for reform of the rights and con­di­tions of work­ers in the on-demand trans­port indus­try who are not engaged as employees. The state­ment sig­nals sup­port for the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment leg­is­lat­ing for an inde­pen­dent body with the capac­i­ty…

Impor­tant Work­place Rela­tions Changes Effec­tive 1 July 2022

Employ­ers and employ­ees alike need to be aware of impor­tant changes in the work­place rela­tions space, effec­tive 1 July 2022. From that date: the high income thresh­old for unfair dis­missal cas­es will increase to $162,000 per annum (from the present $158,500 per annum) and the com­pen­sa­tion lim­it will be $81,000 (equiv­a­lent to…