NEWS-HR

A s.318 (Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and transferring employees) by Fresh Fields Aged Care (NSW) No 1 Pty Ltd T/A Hall & Prior Aged Care for its Grafton Aged Care Home, NSWNMA, ANMF NSW Branch & HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2015 has been agreed by Fair Work Commissioner Johns. Hall and Prior has been given until April 3 to complete all notifications.

Talking Heads Speech Pathology is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staffer (Aron).

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Healthe Care Australia Pty Ltd for its Healthe Care (Victorian Hospitals) Health Professionals Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been ratified by Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 30 March 2017.

The Health Services Union and Warrigal Care Pty Ltd are embroiled in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Riordan in the Courthouse Market Street in Wollongong.

In what the Queensland Nurses’ and Midwives’ Union has described as a “David versus Goliath-style battle”, the families of elderly Australians have launched a petition, contacted political parties and approached the media in a bid to end elder neglect in aged care facilities. Woodgate resident Heather Mansell Brown, who spoke out about the care of her husband Bill in a Bundaberg home, has launched a petition on change.org, Safe Staffing In Aged Care Now, that has gathered more than 33,200 signatures. Union secretary Beth Mohle said relatives and residents throughout the country had reported deaths, broken limbs, dehydration and poor nutrition as a direct result of dangerously low aged care staffing.The union has harnessed some of these stories to hammer home their campaign demanding minimum staffing ratios in aged care facilities.

Prying into patient files cost two Waikato Hospital staff their jobs and prompted two others to resign. Twelve privacy or confidentiality breaches have been committed by Waikato staff since 2012. Offences range from unauthorised snooping on medical records, to misdirected emails.

An application for approval of the Mater Health Services Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise Agreement 2015-2018 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is before Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers at 11.30am.

An application for approval of the Serco Medical & Dental Logistics Support Services Agreement 2017 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be evaluated by Commissioner Wilson in Melbourne.