A top executive at NSW’s Family and Community Services department has been a director of a company which donated to the Liberal party and sought a casino licence, business ventures an expert says conflict with his public service duties. Public servant Jim Longley is at the centre of a widening charity payments scandal under investigation by NSW Fair Trading. Mr Longley is chief executive of the $3 billion Ageing, Disability and Home Care division and also deputy secretary of the department of Family and Community Services.
May 3, 2017
Estia Health has another (s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy) fight on its hands (Brackley).
May 3, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Southern Cross Care Broken Hill Limited for its Southern Cross Care Broken Hill Limited, and the ANMF Oasis Staff Enterprise Agreement 2015-2018 has been approved by Commissioner Roe in Melbourne on 2 May 2017.
May 3, 2017
Bupa is facing allegations that its poor care of a resident in Adelaide led to his death. Kevin Williams had been at the Bupa facility at Modbury for 12 weeks, before he died from an infected ulcer on his right hip. His daughter, Jillian Thomson, said he had open wounds, which looked like bed sores, all over him. “One of his hips, the bone was seriously just sticking out … and then his coccyx was black, the skin had died and there was a hole that you could literally see inside of him.” During his stay, Mr Williams’ family claims he was not showered for days and was handled roughly by staff. “He had fingernail cuts in his nose and his mouth. He said they had tried to force his medication in his mouth,” Mrs Thomson said. “I managed to get his shirt off on my own [one day] and on the top part of his right arm, I found a bruise mark with a hand print, it was a hand print. “You couldn’t say it wasn’t, you could see it distinctly, took the other side off and it was exactly the same, like someone had grabbed hold of him and squeezed him so tight.” Mr Williams’ granddaughter, Sharne Thomson, believes the coroner should re-examine his death. The family took their allegations to the coroner in August 2012, when Mr Williams died. They also went to the Federal Government’s Aged Care Complaints Commissioner. Most claims were thrown out due to a lack of evidence but Bupa did give Mr Williams the wrong medication. “We apologise unreservedly for the distress Mr Williams’ family felt and continues to feel,” Bupa said in a statement.
May 3, 2017
Epworth HealthCare is facing a (s.604 – Appeal of decisions) by Naicker before the Full Bench in Court 1 – Level 6 in Melbourne at 11am.
May 3, 2017
Quad Services Pty Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Saunders on Level 3, 237 Wharf Road in Newcastle (Cohen).
May 3, 2017
Scope (Vic) Ltd is facing a (s.604 – Appeal of decisions) before the Full Bench in Court 1 – Level 6 in Melbourne (Sekirski).
May 2, 2017
A support worker who was injured when a 190kg man fell on her has been awarded a $332,189 WorkCover payout. Therese Gai McCormack, 50, suffered a painful shoulder injury that required surgery and took her former employer Former Ethnic Community Care Links Inc to court for negligence. Townsville District Court judge Stuart Durward published a judgment in favour of Ms McCormack. Ms McCormack went to the at Ayr Hospital in June 2011 to meet the man for his dental appointment. When she arrived, the “grossly obese man” was lying face down in a maxi taxi with his legs halfway out. “The plaintiff said she got into the maxi-taxi through the wheelchair access entry in order to comfort (the man) and knelt on the floor in front of (him) at his head,” the judgment read. Two hospital orderlies came out to assist, pulling his arms back in an attempt to lift him but the man either slipped or the orderlies dropped him and Ms McCormack’s right shoulder was forced into the metal leg of a seat. The judge assessed Ms McCormack’s future loss of earnings to be $400 a week for 12 years, totalling more than $170,000. Her past economic loss was calculated to be $121,028.
