An application by Healthscope Operations Limited (s.217 – Application to vary an agreement to remove an ambiguity or uncertainty) will be heard by Commissioner Cirkovic in Hearing room 8, First Floor in Hobart at 9.30am.
March 16, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Bowen Old People’s Home Society Inc. for its Bowen Old People’s Homes Society Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been approved.
March 16, 2017
A Christchurch dementia patient is living in a new care facility after she took a rest-home staffer’s unlocked car and drove it to Ashburton. The elderly woman took the vehicle from the The Oaks Rest Home in Riccarton earlier this month and drove south for more than an hour before she was stopped. New Zealand Aged Care Association chief executive Simon Wallace said the woman was living in the general rest home at the time of the incident, but had since been moved to a secure facility in Wellington.
March 15, 2017
An application for approval of the Embracia Communities Queensland Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is the preserve of Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne chambers at 11am.
March 15, 2017
Labor and the unions are broadening the political fight against Malcolm Turnbull over penalty rates by claiming nurses are at risk of future pay cuts. Employment Minister Michaelia Cash yesterday blasted the claim as a “Labor lie” aimed at furthering Bill Shorten’s political agenda to instil “fear into the Australian community”. Senator Cash has pointed to the Fair Work Commission’s assurance that its decision to reduce Sunday loadings for hospitality and retail workers provided “no warrant for the variation of penalty rates in other modern awards”. “Bill Shorten will stand condemned for his lies, hypocrisy and for preying on the fears of working Australians,” she said. Armed with legal advice from Maurice Blackburn, ACTU president Ged Kearney yesterday went on the attack over the FWC decision by warning that “nurses, teachers, cleaners, community, social, disability and construction workers” were all at risk from future penalty rate cuts.
March 15, 2017
Ramsay Health Care’s chief executive Chris Rex has joined the stampede for the exit. “I’ve got millions of things I would like to do before I die and I want to get cracking on them,” he said in January, and clearly one of those things is spending millions. Ramsay advised the ASX just after 5pm on Friday that Rex had dumped a whopping $27.2 million worth of ordinary shares (400,000 at $68.10) for “the orderly diversification of his personal investment portfolio” and to satisfy a tax liability. That old chestnut!
March 15, 2017
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Mercy Hospital for Women (Heidelberg Campus) are having a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute in relation to flexible working arrangements) chat.
March 15, 2017
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.
