NEWS-HR

Kanandah Retirement Living has to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Vice President Hatcher in his Sydney chambers (McDade).

The Health Services Union and Euroa Health Inc have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) contretemps raging before Deputy President Hamilton in court 3 & conference room B – level 6 in Melbourne.

An application by Centacare North Queensland (The Roman Catholic Trust Corporation for the Diocese of Townsville) (s.225 – Application for termination of an enterprise agreement after its nominal expiry date) is on foot before Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers.

WA’s problem-plagued public hospital system is facing more instability with the head of King Edward Memorial Hospital stepping down on unspecified extended leave. A circular sent to staff said Peter Wynn Owen, a forensic psychiatrist, had stepped down as executive director of Women and Newborn Health Services. Dr Wynn Owen has been in the role for less than two years. The position will be temporarily filled by Philip Aylward, who is in charge of procurement and contract management at the North Metropolitan Health Service.

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association of Queensland & Jackson and Others are facing a trio of s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Commissioner Simpson (Evans/Ferguson/Ingram).

WA hospitals have been savaged by the corruption watchdog for lax controls over powerful and addictive narcotics that continue to go missing despite repeated warnings to improve security. The Corruption and Crime Commission released a report yesterday on the management of schedule 8 controlled drugs — the fourth official investigation of its kind in six years.

Spencers Amcal Pharmacy is facing the bitter pill of a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute in relation to flexible working arrangements) lodged by a staff member (Photopoulos).

A group of elderly residents were returning to their nursing home from a trip to a bakery when a taxi crashed into their mini bus killing one woman and injuring a dozen others in the state’s north. Police allege the taxi T-boned the bus, carrying a group of elderly residents from the Mercy Place nursing home in Shepparton, about 3.30pm on Tuesday.