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Michael Byrnes is quoted in the article, 'Fair Work favours the boss in Covid-19 sackings', published in The Australian on 22 April 2023

Michael Byrnes is quoted in the article, 'Fair Work favours the boss in Covid-19 sackings'.

Australia Employment

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Swaab

Mandatory Vaccination & Employment: lessons from managing anti-vaxxers in schools

Mandatory vaccination orders placed certain workers under a legal obligation not to work unless fully vaccinated.

Australia Consumer

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Carroll & O'Dea

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations - one year on

When can employers require their employees to be vaccinated?

Australia Employment

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People + Culture Strategies

Michael Byrnes appeared on Nights with John Stanley on 2GB and 4BC discussing the implications for employers of the end of mandatory isolation for COVID-19 infection

Employer's rights, if they don't want their employee to attend work if they have tested positive for COVID.

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Swaab

Michael Byrnes is published in HRM Online: How should employers respond to COVID-19 now that isolation rules are being removed?

Australia Employment

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Swaab

Employees soldiering on with COVID-19: What can employers do?

Australia Employment

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Swaab

Employee litigation following termination on account of vaccination status

Australia Employment

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Pointon Partners

Fair Work delivers a key decision for a vaccine mandate in a workplace

Australia Employment

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Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

A tale of two vaccination policies

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

COVID-19 vaccine: have you been unfairly dismissed?

Australia Employment

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Kells

The workplace vaccine mandate myth buster case

Australia Employment

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Swaab

COVID-19 resurgence extends unpaid pandemic leave

Australia Employment

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Coleman Greig Lawyers

Fair Work Commission considers COVID-19 vaccination policy implemented during Omicron

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

Michael Byrnes is quoted in the article - Saving money by WFH: Who is benefiting and how - published in Lawyers Weekly on 10 June 2022:

Australia Employment

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Swaab

It's Not All Zoom And Gloom: Balancing An Employee's 'Right To Privacy'

Australia Privacy

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Gilchrist Connell

New road rules and driving offences come into effect across Australia

Australia Transport

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Sydney Criminal Lawyers

Cyber Security: Two Months In Retrospect (Australia) - August And September 2025

Australia Technology

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Funds Update - 26 September 2025

Australia Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

What Happens When An Employee Runs Out Of Sick Leave?

Australia Employment

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Swaab

Social distancing in the legal profession – should it stay or go?

Pandemic measures, such as working from home, video-conferencing and online court systems have changed legal practice.

Australia Coronavirus

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Carroll & O'Dea

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccine laws

Employers have an obligation to take all reasonably practicable steps to minimise the risk of exposure to COVID-19.

Australia Coronavirus

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Carroll & O'Dea

Using his own words against him: How a complete refusal to comply with an employers vaccination policy regardless of its contents can justify termination without notice

Dismissal for refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19, in the absence of a Government direction, was found to be fair.

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

The future of COVID-19 risk and regulatory enforcement: a cross-jurisdictional review

How will the COVID-19 risk be regulated by criminal enforcement agencies in the UK, US and Australia?

Australia Employment

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Kennedys

Top 5 Tips for Employers to manage risk in 2022

Australia Employment

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Coleman Greig Lawyers

Community, compassion and the World Happiness Report with Adam Grant

Australia Coronavirus

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Travis Schultz & Partners

Dismissal of unvaccinated employee supported by Fair Work Commission due to vaccination being a regulatory requirement

Australia Employment

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Holding Redlich

Return to Work: Addressing issues of culture, workplace behaviour and performance management

Australia Employment

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People + Culture Strategies

New pathways added to Subclass 186 Temporary Residency Transition visa

Australia Immigration

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Roam Migration Law

NSW parliament proposes making COVID-19 long service leave flexibility permanent

Australia Employment

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Swaab

Australian employers should prepare for open borders and competition for skilled labour

Australia Employment

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Gilton Valeo Lawyers

Mandatory workplace vaccination: Some recent COVID-19 vaccination cases

Australia Employment

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Swaab

A sound, defensible and well-founded approach to dismissing unvaccinated employees

Australia Employment

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Holding Redlich

[Webinar Q&As] Beat the clock: Substantive law – Workplace lessons from the pandemic

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

Australian employers should prepare for open borders and competition for skilled labour

Employers will need to navigate a very different world to ensure success in a globally competitive talent environment.

Australia Employment

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Gilton Valeo Lawyers

Mandatory workplace vaccination: Some recent COVID-19 vaccination cases

In these cases, the FWC has upheld the right of the employer to mandate COVID-19 vaccination and terminate employment.

Australia Employment

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Swaab

A sound, defensible and well-founded approach to dismissing unvaccinated employees

Employers who provide procedural fairness and a fair termination process will not be penalised for unfair dismissal.

Australia Employment

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Holding Redlich

[Webinar Q&As] Beat the clock: Substantive law – Workplace lessons from the pandemic

The article includes answers to questions received from a recent webinar on the workplace during the pandemic.

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

[Podcast] Flexibility at work

Australia Employment

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Walter Baden

High-impact solutions to immediate supply chain and workforce challenges

The 5 common impacts of COVID – staff shortages, freight delays, short supply of raw materials, higher prices, overworked staff

Australia Employment

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KordaMentha

COVID cheat sheet for NSW employers - all you need to know

A snapshot of what NSW employers need to know about the rules around Covid.

Australia Employment

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Coleman Greig Lawyers

Juggling it all – home schooling options for employers and employees

There is a genuine need for flexible and well thought out work from home policies and arrangements for working parents.

Australia Employment

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Mellor Olsson Lawyers

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace: Is it legal?

Concept of mandatory vaccines in the workplace & the ethics around it.

Australia Employment

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Ivy Law Group

Comfort for employers after FWC finds that requiring COVID-19 vaccination information is not a breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

Australia Employment

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Gilchrist Connell

QIRC rejects employee request for remote working arrangements

Australia Employment

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People + Culture Strategies

Fair Work Commission upholds dismissal of unvaccinated aged care worker

Australia Employment

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Holding Redlich

The Omicron workplace safety dilemma

Australia Employment

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Swaab

Consultation key ahead of work mandates

Australia Employment

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Mellor Olsson Lawyers

Unpaid pandemic leave extended to 30 June 2022

Australia Employment

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Coleman Greig Lawyers

Reputational risk – FWC upholds dismissal of employee who breached stay-at-home orders

Australia Employment

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People + Culture Strategies

Leave options for self-isolating employees

Australia Employment

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Swaab

Employee surveillance kills workplace culture dead

Australia Employment

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Travis Schultz & Partners

Worker dismissal for protesting against vaccine mandates was lawful, Fair Work Commission finds

Australia Employment

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Sydney Criminal Lawyers

Sacked for being vaxxed

Australia Employment

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Sydney Criminal Lawyers

Who pays compensation if you are injured from the COVID-19 vaccine?

Australia Employment

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Hall Payne Lawyers

Employment and industrial relations: what is in store for 2022?

Australia Employment

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Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Preparing For The "Great Resignation" And Remote Employee Departures

Australia Employment

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Update on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for staff

Australia Employment

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Madgwicks

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[Podcast] Full Disclosure, vol. 5: Returning to the office during COVID-19

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Mellor Olsson Lawyers

Full disclosure podcast, volume 1: Navigating stand downs, redundancy and unfair dismissal after JobKeeper

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Mellor Olsson Lawyers

Legal Lockdown - Episode 6: Beyond Blue (Video)

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Holman Webb Lawyers

NSW workers compensation & COVID-19

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Carroll & O'Dea

Legal Lockdown - Episode 1: JobKeeper Scheme

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Holman Webb Lawyers

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