Uniting Care Wesley Adelaide Inc will argue a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Platt in his Adelaide chambers (Marlow).
June 13, 2017
An aged-care home billing itself as “warm and welcoming” breached clinical standards when audited in a surprise government inspection. The 72-bed Ozanam Apartments facility in the ACT suburb of Garran cares for a large number of high-needs residents as well as those with dementia. The Australian Aged Care Quality Agency found the home, operated by Southern Cross Care, failed standards related to clinical management, behavioural management and skin care. Helen Emmerson, the head of care services at Southern Cross Care, said these issues had been fixed immediately and the residence was now up to scratch.
June 13, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation South Australian Branch for its Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation South Australian Branch Employees Agreement 2017 has been granted by Commissioner Wilson in Melbourne on 8 June 2017.
June 13, 2017
The total cost of executive-level staff pay packets at ACT Health is expected to reach $8.1 million this year, up about 50 per cent during the past four years. While the rise in the total cost of Canberra’s public health executives was due to increasing executive numbers, it also comes as increasing numbers of the senior staff have headed for the door in recent years.
June 13, 2017
National Prescribing Service is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) lodged by a staff member (McAllan).
June 13, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Central Anaesthetic Group Services Trust T/A Central Anaesthetic Group for its Central Anaesthetic Group Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved.
June 13, 2017
The Health Services Union and Australian Education Union and Another are supporting a s.576(2)(aa) (Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) application.
June 13, 2017
A former employee of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has been sentenced to eight months of home detention for receiving secret commissions from Middle Eastern clients and for deceiving his employer. Simon William Hall pleaded guilty in March to one Crimes Act charge of obtaining by deception and two charges under Section 8 of the Secret Commissions Act laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Hall committed the offences over the course of six years, from 2008 to 2014 while employed as an area manager in Auckland and dealing with companies in the Middle Eastern.
