Healius has appointed Jan Van Rooyen – former chief executive of South Africa’s AMPATH – as its new pathology boss amid an attempted hostile takeover from smaller rival Australian Clinical Labs. Dr Van Rooyen will start at the company as its group executive, Healius Pathology, on June 1, replacing John McKechnie as part of “refresh” of its executive leadership. His appointment follows Healius’s board blasting ACL’s nil-premium offer as “plainly inadequate” and questioned the $95m in cost savings that ACL said it could deliver from a merged group.
May 15, 2023
The boss of Victoria’s trouble-plagued triple-0 service has resigned. Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority chief Stephen Leane, the brother of Andrews government minister Shaun Leane, will finish with the service later this month after almost two years in the job. Mr Leane was appointed chief executive last April, having acted as interim chief executive since October 2021.
May 15, 2023
The United Workers Union and Community Accommodation & Respite Agency Inc T/A Community Accommodation & Respite Agency Inc T/A Cara are involved in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) set to be heard before Fair Work Commissioner Platt (In Chambers) in Adelaide today
May 12, 2023
Not For Profit Whiddon has appointed Tim Birch and Raj Verma to its board of directors.
May 12, 2023
Levande has announced interim chief Kevin McCoy as permanent chief executive officer.
May 12, 2023
Karen Borg has stepped down from her role as CEO of Catholic Healthcare with former Chief Operating Officer, Josh McFarlane.
May 12, 2023
Telstra Health – Angela Perry and Sarah Williams will face s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner McKenna By Telephone AEST (NSW Time) in Sydney (Luna)
May 10, 2023
The Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) is up against a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Deputy President Dean (Video using Microsoft Teams) in the ACT (He)
