Workers at Echuca’s Bupa Aged Care home are being encouraged to vote down their latest pay offer. The proposal, which includes a 2.3 per cent wage increase, will be put to workers at Bupa’s 26 Victorian nursing homes today. But the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation claims the offer provides no improvements beyond the pay rise and is urging staff to vote against the proposal. The foundation has set up a large billboard outside the Fehring Ln facility in recent days in an attempt to sway employees ahead of the ballot. It claims Bupa is one of Victoria’s lowest paying aged care groups. Victoria branch secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick said Bupa nurses and personal care workers earned thousands of dollars less each year than colleagues doing the same work.
May 25, 2017
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation-Northern Territory Branch (s.238 – Application for a scope order) will be reviewed by Commissioner Wilson in Conference Room 1 in Darwin at 10am.
May 25, 2017
National Prescribing Service has a (s.372 – Application to deal with other contravention disputes) date with Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers (McAllan).
May 25, 2017
A s.185 (Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) by The Northcott Society has been approved in a 46 page written decision handed down by Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 24 May 2017. The entity operates in the social, community, home care and disability services sector.
May 24, 2017
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the $130 billion Future Fund, tried to block the election of Sydney Airport chairman Trevor Gerber to the board of Regis Healthcare. Documents obtained by freedom of information laws reveal for the first time which companies were targeted by the Peter Costello-chaired Future Fund for failing to live up to its corporate governance standard on executive pay and board appointments.
May 24, 2017
Baptistcare in Western Australia has appointed Graydn Spinks as its new general manager aged care services.
May 24, 2017
An application by Australian Health & Nutrition Association Limited (s.210 – Application for approval of a variation of an enterprise agreement) will be sought from Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney at 3pm.
May 24, 2017
HammondCare has appointed Associate Professor Josephine Clayton as director of the HammondCare Centre for Learning and Research in Palliative Care.
