An application by Phoenix Health Fund Limited (Sch. 3, Item 15 – Application by agreement to terminate collective agreement-based transitional instrument) will be determined by Senior Deputy President Hamberger in his Sydney chamber at 10.30am.
July 26, 2017
Statements of claim have been lodged against a Hunter Valley nursing home on behalf of the families of two residents, alleging negligence after they were murdered by a staff member in October 2013. Wallsend Summit Care nursing home worker Garry Steven Davis, 30, is currently serving a maximum 40 years jail after being found guilty in September 2016 of murdering Gwen Fowler, 83, and Ryan Kelly, 80 using lethal shots of insulin. He was also found guilty of attempted murder of another resident Audrey Manuel, 91, who was also given a lethal dose but survived, only to die later. Newcastle solicitor Lucy Wilk who is acting for the murdered residents’ families, filing statements of claim in the NSW District Court against Summit Care’s parent company Stelcom. “We act for two of the families who had family members murdered at the Summit Care facility at Wallsend and last week we filed statements of claim on behalf of those two families”, she said. “Once it is filed we are hoping to conclude within the next six or so months and give some closure to the families.” The trial of Davis heard that there was lax security on exit doors and medicine fridges at the nursing home. The Supreme Court was told insulin could be accessed by many staff members in an unlocked fridge. It was alleged that in one designated fridge, dips, milk and other food stuff were stored next to insulin.
July 26, 2017
Peninsula Village Limited & Evergreen Life Care Limited and Others have a (s.576(2)(aa) – Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) before Deputy President Booth in the Gosford RSL Club 26 Central Coast Hwy West Gosford NSW 2250 today.
July 26, 2017
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Rule 7 (FWC) – Directors on procedure) will be denied by Deputy President Kovacic in conference room 1 in the ACT today.
July 26, 2017
The Aboriginal Hostels Limited Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been corrected by Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra on 25 July 2017. Paragraph [9] at the sixth dot is replaced in its entirety to read: [1] there are 11 hostels where a Night Attendant is not on duty, with the 21 managers at those hostels paid the $15 Sleep Over allowance under clause 4.20.1 of the expired AHL enterprise agreement.
July 26, 2017
The Property Council Illawarra has appointed Fatima Abbas as its new Regional Director of Planning for south eastern NSW.
July 26, 2017
The National Union of Workers and Sigma Company Limited have a s.604 (Appeal of decisions) being determined by the full bench in court 1 – level 6 in Melbourne today.
July 26, 2017
The National Union of Workers and Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd have a (s.739 – Application to deal with a dispute) listed for hearing before Commissioner McKinnon in court 5 & conference room D – level 6 in Melbourne.
