NEWS-HR

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.

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.

National Prescribing Service is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) lodged by a staff member (McAllan).

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.

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.

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.

The Health Services Union and Clinical Laboratories Pty Ltd are having a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) stoush in Melbourne.

A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service Inc for its Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service Employees Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 8 June 2017.