St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne) Limited and Health Services Union & Robinson are embroiled in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne.
June 16, 2017
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Alfred Health are contesting a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before the Fair Work full bench in Court 1 – level 6 in Melbourne at 10am.
June 16, 2017
The head of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s cardiology unit, Professor John Horowitz, has returned to work after being suspended for alleged bullying. Prof Horowitz has been a longstanding critic of the state government’s Transforming Health policy, which would result in the closing down of two catheter labs at the QEH, claiming they would lead to more deaths of patients who had suffered heart attacks. At the time of his suspension in December, Prof Horowitz said it was “highly likely’’ his suspension had been prompted by his criticism of the state government’s plans to revamp the health system. The bullying allegation was levelled by an unnamed female junior doctor at the QEH, the details of which have not been disclosed. Prof Horowitz, who was allowed to return to work last month, was circumspect when asked about the charges he was still facing. “What I can say is the complaint against me has been downgraded from bullying,’’ he said.
June 16, 2017
Girudala Community Cooperative Society Ltd has been served with a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) by Ive.
June 16, 2017
Victoria has doubled funding for security in public hospitals after a surgeon was left fighting for his life when he was attacked in the foyer of a hospital in Melbourne’s east. Dr Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann was punched in the head and knocked unconscious at Box Hill Hospital last month. He remains in a critical condition. His alleged attacker, Joseph Esmaili, has been charged with recklessly causing serious injury. The Victorian Government said it would provide an extra $20 million for improved security, on top of $20 million invested last year.
June 16, 2017
BK Chemists is defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by Trevisan.
June 16, 2017
Disgraced ex-Labor MP Craig Thomson will lose more than $100 a week from his modest income as a consultant after the Federal Court quarantined the money to pay his outstanding fine for misusing union funds. Thomson has refused to pay the Fair Work Commission any of the $175,550 as ordered in 2015 by judge Christopher Jessup, who found the former Health Services Union national secretary had used more than $300,000 of HSU funds to pay for prostitutes and his election campaign for the seat of Dobell. The industrial watchdog took Thomson back to court this month to seek a formal earnings order withholding a proportion of his wages for the outstanding fine. Though Thomson did not appear, Federal Court registrar David Ryan ordered his wife’s company — the Wickerman Group, which employs the former MP as a consultant — to pay the FWC $208.88 a fortnight from his wages, or $5408 a year, as long as Thomson continued to earn more than $839.12 per fortnight. Under this arrangement, it will take more than 32 years for the penalty to be repaid. The former union boss has also flouted orders to pay the HSU $231,243.42 in compensation and $146,937 interest, raising the prospect that the union may take similar action to ensure payment as it has previously flagged.
June 16, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Churches of Christ in Queensland (Churches of Christ Care) for its Churches of Christ Care Community and Residential Services Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 13 June 2017.
