The Health Services Union and the Department of Health and Human Services have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Deputy President Hamilton in Court 4 & Conference Room C – level 6 in Melbourne today.
June 27, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Lifehouse Australia as trustee for Lifehouse Australia Trust T/A Lifehouse Australia for its Lifehouse Nurses Agreement 2017 has been granted by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 26 June 2017.
June 27, 2017
A prison crime ring has been busted smuggling in drugs, tech gear and tobacco via old folks’ home laundry. Jail authorities made the shock discovery last week in piles of soiled laundry from aged care facilities, which is cleaned by inmates at Port Phillip Prison. Phone chargers, USB sticks, balloons suspected of containing drugs and pouches of tobacco were uncovered during a search of linen and garments. They had been brought in via trucks from aged care homes around Melbourne. The laundry is cleaned under contract by the prisoners.
June 27, 2017
Sonic HealthPlus Pty Ltd T/A Sonic HealthPlus has had its Sonic HealtPlus Enterprise Agreement 2017 approved.
June 26, 2017
A single mum has been spared jail despite admitting distributing an indecent video of a two-year-old girl and a man she was ‘disgusted’ by. Care worker Gloria Owusu was sent the video clip in May last year and sent it on to relatives and friends over the next eight months. Owusu also shared a picture of an eight-year-old girl standing naked in a field – but claimed she not did think this was indecent as ‘children often walk around naked’ in the village she was from in Ghana. The 45-year-old, who works part-time in a residential care home for the elderly, was arrested when she showed her colleague the video and it was seen by a visitor. She pleaded guilty to two offences of possessing and distributing indecent images but was spared jail after Judge Zoe Smith gave her a 10 month suspended sentence.
June 26, 2017
Tomorrow Carolyn Diane Alleyne will be sentenced in the Manukau District Court after pleading guilty to six representative charges of theft by a person in a special relationship. When World War II veteran Ron Greenhalgh died on Father’s Day last year, he had nothing but the second-hand clothes on his back, after his daughter stripped him of his life savings and spent them. When Greenhalgh, 95, was admitted to a resthome with dementia, he had a home and significant savings at the end stages. Mike Greenhalgh says he feels betrayed after his sister Carolyn Diane Alleyne stole his fathers’ life savings while he had dementia. By the time he died, his daughter had allegedly spent about $250,000 of his money at the TAB and to maintain her own lifestyle, leaving him with barely enough to pay for his funeral.
June 26, 2017
The Community and Public Sector Union and the Department of Human Services have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers at 4.30pm.
June 26, 2017
A residential care home boss who stole from an 87-year-old resident to fuel her online gambling addiction has been warned she faces prison.
