James Borg has been refused an extension of time to pursue his general protections application at the Fair Work Commission against Summit Health Care Pty Ltd T/A SummitCare (Australia).
February 21, 2017
Churches of Christ Community Care in NSW is defending a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 11-1 – Level 11 in Sydney at noon (Gordon).
February 21, 2017
“I’ll never forget that day…and I will never forgive.” On May 6, 2015, Heather Brown received a call from her husband’s aged care facility, asking her to travel from her home in Woodgate to Bundaberg to help clean him. “He was left on the veranda covered in his own faeces, for residents and visitors to see.” Ms Brown’s husband Bill, 77, has dementia and lives in the high needs unit at TriCare in Bundaberg. The facility says client care is foremost in its goals but says it can’t talk about individual incidents. That day in 2015 Mrs Brown was called in to help due to a lack of staff. She said the problem has not gone away and is lobbying for change. Last month she discovered blood on Mr Brown’s sheets. She said he had been wearing a urine-soaked pad for 12 hours which had caused the skin on his scrotum to tear and bleed. In another incident, she discovered her husband had fallen and appeared to be having a mini stroke, but no staff came immediately to her aid, as “one was busy feeding another resident”. Mrs Brown stressed that the staff were doing their best – but there were simply not enough of them. “It is a staffing issue,” Mrs Brown said. “The staff there are wonderful and they work very hard – but they are overstretched.”
February 21, 2017
An application for approval of the National Disability Insurance Agency Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be heard by Deputy President Kovacic in his ACT chambers at 10.15am.
February 21, 2017
TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT – misconduct – s.394 Fair Work Act 2009 – applicant employed as a Patient Care Attendant at a regional residential care facility – dismissed for alleged elder abuse involving inappropriate treatment of residents – respondent submitted first and final warning previously issued to applicant on or about October 2015 reinforced proper standards and workplace conduct – on or about 5 August 2016 applicant was alleged to have engaged in aggressive, humiliating and intimidating behaviour towards a resident – respondent contended applicant’s actions constituted physical and emotional/psychological abuse of resident amounting to serious and wilful misconduct – factors surrounding dismissal weighed against s.387 considerations – on balance, the Commission resolved dismissal was not unfair within the meaning of the FW Act – application dismissed. Lehmann v Mary Mackillop Aged Care SA
February 21, 2017
REGISTERED ORGANISATIONS – amalgamation – Transitionally Recognised Association – Sch.1, Cl.6(2) Fair Work Registered Organisations Act 2009 – application to extend status as a Transitionally Recognised Association to allow more time to fully rationalise its internal affairs with those of its federal counterpart – interim decision issued extending transitional recognition of applicant until application determined or further order made – one outstanding issue left – issue was current coverage clause of federal counterpart ambiguous in relation to persons employed by St Johns Ambulance Association in WA – federal counterpart currently reviewing its rules to simplify them – as part of rules review will include the applicants eligibly rule in relation to these WA employees – proposed timetable to take till August 2017 – applicant provided further submissions – applicant undertook at hearing to bring timetable forward to late February 2017 – Commission satisfied applicant had made progress towards rationalising internal affairs with federal counterpart – able to exercise jurisdictional discretion – ordered transitional registration of the applicant extended to 1 January 2018. United Voice WA
February 20, 2017
Retirees in aged care villages are reportedly “living in fear” after becoming the focus of teen crime. Wagga police officers have held a meeting at The Haven retirement village to reassure scared residents. Ten key arrests in the last three weeks have slowed the property crime scourge, but more than three homes, on average, are still being robbed a day.
February 20, 2017
A former Cairns Hospital nurse, who claims her bosses made life hellish whilst working has spoken out about a culture of bullying within the troubled ward. Michele Doran was at the hospital for five years until she quit in 2015 over claims she was bullied at work.
