Staff that work across major hospitals in Adelaide’s south have been promised there will be no job cuts ahead of the closure of services at the Repatriation General Hospital later this year.
April 19, 2017
Bawinanga Aboriginal Coup is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by ex-staffer (Kelly).
April 19, 2017
Public servants at Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support will up the stakes in their long-running fight with the Department of Human Services over pay and conditions. The agency’s staff could strike from 30 minutes to a day each time in the fresh wave of industrial action, which the Community and Public Sector Union has blamed on the DHS’ unwillingness to compromise in negotiations. But the department says the move will not change its offer in talks for a new enterprise agreement. CPSU national secretary Nadine Flood said it expected the industrial action, involving longer strike periods and held at a time of high demand for the department’s services, would cause significant disruption.
April 19, 2017
Kirinari Community Services has been served with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) by Milojevic.
April 19, 2017
The RSL South Australia has been placed into voluntary administration. RSL SA has been in financial trouble for months and several board members have resigned, along with chief executive Julia Langrehr. After weeks of negotiations, the league’s national branch has intervened in the state branch’s financial crisis, and the firm Rodgers Reidy has stepped in as administrator.
April 19, 2017
A s.604 (Appeal of decisions) by Ms Della Lehmann against Mary Mackillop Aged Care SA has been refused. Vice President Catanzariti, Deputy President Clancy and Commissioner Johns ruled it was not in the public interest to allow Lehmann a second shot at vindication.
April 19, 2017
A nurse at Royal Melbourne Hospital was taken hostage by a patient armed with a knife in an event police are describing as a “siege”. The incident occurred in a surgery ward of the Parkville hospital on Monday evening about 6.30pm when a 60-year-old Wandin North man threatened two female staff members.
April 13, 2017
An application for approval of the Bethesda Health Care ANF – Registered Nurses’ Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be adjudicated by Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers mid-afternoon.
