Southern Cross Care has lodged an appeal against a medical assessment (Miramar Mills) issued by the NSW Workers Compensation Commission. Miramar Mills was employed as an assistant in nursing at a nursing home at Merrylands. Her duties included repetitive frequent prolonged abnormal movement patterns including flexion, extension, lateral bending and axial rotation, lifting, carrying and placing residents, stooping, pushing, pulling and forward reaching. Conservative treatment was unsuccessful and the claimant developed symptoms in her right arm, particularly pins and needles and tingling. She came to surgery with Dr van Gelder on 6 June 2012. Dr van Gelder performed a right sided cervical foraminotomy at C5/6, C6/7 and C7/T1 with a right foraminal discectomy at C6/T1. The claimant continues to experience numbness in the medial aspect of the right forearm and in her right middle finger. The approved medical specialist (AMS) found that there was a 22 per cent WPI in relation to the injury to the cervical spine and nil per cent scarring. This has now been reduced to 19 per cent as a result of the appeal.
March 31, 2017
Northern Health has been served with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) by a Maharaj. Commissioner Bissett in Court 12 & Conference Room A – Level 5 in Melbourne will hear the matter at 10am.
March 31, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Mater Misericordiae Ltd T/A Mater Group for its Mater Health Services Nursing and Widwifery Enterprise Agreement 2015-2018 has been tamped by Fair Work Commissioner Johns.
March 31, 2017
An application for approval of The Bays Healthcare Group Support Services Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.184 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is the preserve of Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne chambers.
March 31, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by St Andrew’s Toowoomba Hospital for its St Andrew’s Toowoomba Hospital and QNU – Nurses – Enterprise Agreement 2015-2018 has been ratified by Fair Work Commissioner Cirkovic.
March 31, 2017
The Australian Charities and Not For Profits Commission (ACNC) is now investigating every state and territory branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL). The New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia branches are all under specific scrutiny, while other branches are understood to be the target of a more general review. Some within the organisation view it as fall-out from the multiple allegations of financial misconduct at the NSW branch, which first surfaced six months ago. The CEO of RSL Queensland, Luke Traini, said the branch had submitted a huge tranche of documents, including receipts for executive spending. “It was a pretty fulsome (sic) reply, so that’s 2,500 pages of documentation supplied to the ACNC,” he said.
March 31, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by The Salvation Army Tasmania Property Trust as Trustee for the Salvation Army Tasmania Social Work T/A The Salvation Army Tasmania Division for its Salvation Army – Tasmania Division, Barrington Lodge Nurses Agreement 2016 has passed Commissioner John’s ‘pub’ test.
March 31, 2017
Baxter Healthcare Pty Ltd is set to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staff member (Portelli).
