Mary Mackillop Aged Care SA is to face an appeal (s.604 – Appeal of decisions) over the Lehmann decision. Vice President Catanzariti in Hearing Room 6.1 – Level 6 in Adelaide will head the full bench.
April 3, 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 The Salvation Army – Tasmania Division, Barrington Lodge Nurses Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Johns in Melbourne on 30 March 2017.
April 3, 2017
Mirvac chief executive Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz has been elected president of the Property Council of Australia, replacing Stockland’s Mark Steinert, who steps down after two years in the role.
April 3, 2017
Police will lay additional charges against former union boss Kathy Jackson in the coming weeks, as she fights 70 theft and deception offences, a Melbourne court has been told. The one-time union corruption whistleblower is accused of misappropriating more than $480,000 from the Health Services Union from 2003 to 2011. Police allege she spent $100,000 of the money on travel, including trips to Hong Kong and Los Angeles and a stay at the luxury Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. Jackson appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court via video link from New South Wales, where she is living while on bail. Prosecutors told the short hearing they were planning to file additional charges against Jackson in the coming weeks. Jackson said she was concerned by the prospect, as prosecutors had previously told her there would not be any new charges. But Magistrate Charlie Rozencwajg told her it was a matter to raise with her lawyers. Jackson will return to court for another hearing in June before she faces a four-week committal hearing in November.
April 3, 2017
An application by United Voice and the Health Services Union (s.160 – Application to vary a modern award to remove ambiguity) will be determined by Deputy President Booth in Conference Room 14A in Sydney.
April 3, 2017
An application for approval of the South Eastern Community Care Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2017 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is an in-tray item for Commissioner Gregory today at 3.30pm in Melbourne.
April 3, 2017
An application for approval of the Jessie McPherson Private Hospital (Nurses & Midwives) Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne chambers.
March 31, 2017
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.
