An application by United Voice and the Health Services Union will be heard by Deputy President Booth in the Fair Work Commission in Sydney at 10am.
March 15, 2017
An application for approval of the Bowen Old People’s Homes Society Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is on the agenda of Commissioner Cirkovic in his Melbourne chambers.
March 15, 2017
NSW police have been asked to investigate a man who allegedly stole a doctor’s identity and managed to remain employed for more than a decade at four of the state’s hospitals. Shyam Acharya has already been charged by the Australia Health Practitioners Regulatory Authority but NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says the maximum $30,000 penalty is woefully inadequate. He has asked Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione to pursue the case after previously leaving it to federal authorities and the state’s top cop has agreed.
March 15, 2017
The National Union of Workers and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (Australia) P/L – Tasmania have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Deputy President Wells in the Fair Work Commission Edward Braddon Commonwealth Law Courts Building 39 – 41 Davey Street Hobart at noon.
March 15, 2017
Empowered Living Support Services Ltd is defending a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Commissioner Johns in the Fair Work Commission Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney at 2pm (Davey).
March 15, 2017
A recidivist fraudster who impersonates police before stealing credit cards has been jailed after fleecing nearly $10,000 from his unsuspecting victims. Jason Pope, 40, of Auckland, was this afternoon jailed for 4 years and 9 months on a total of 56 charges from offending in Hamilton and Te Awamutu during 2015. Pope’s ruse was similar for each of his eight victims – he dressed in blue and would be clutching a folder with “police” written on the front of it before talking his way into their homes by saying there had been burglaries in the area. He would then steal personal belongings – including wallets, purses, cellphones – and then call the victims back purporting to be police saying they had arrested the burglars. He would then coax PIN numbers from the victims and go on a spending spree. All up, Pope spent $9543.90 belonging to rest home residents, including from Hamilton’s Hilda Ross Retirement Village. In sentencing him to prison, Judge Spear said Pope’s conduct was that of a classic conman.
March 14, 2017
The Illawarra is bracing itself for wild weather as severe storms, including one that saw lightning strike an Albion Park aged care centre, hit the region.
March 14, 2017
A caregiver caught on hidden camera slapping an elderly rest home resident has been convicted of assault. Sonali Ananta Deo, 23, asked to be discharged without conviction so she could train as a nurse but Judge Kim Saunders said the offending was too serious to avoid a conviction. Deo was caught slapping Piri Hemi, then 86, on the face and hip in June last year when he was a resident at Cascades Retirement Home in Hamilton.
