The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Anglicare SA Limited T/A AnglicareSA are in a dispute over the number of enrolled nurses employed by Anglicare SA at its aged care site who are required to administer medicines. AnglicareSA became aware that a number of its enrolled nurses who were not entitled to administer medicines by virtue of their experience or previous training, had not completed the required medication administration courses that would have permitted them to administer medicines. AnglicareSA required the enrolled nurses who had not completed these courses, to undertake the training in their own time and at their own cost. AnglicareSA contended that they were unable to direct the employees to perform work until the training had been completed. Some of the nurses took annual leave to attend the training, others took unpaid leave. The ANMF contend that AnglicareSA was not entitled to ‘stand down’ the nurses and that the nurses are entitled to be repaid the cost of the training, and payment at ordinary time rates for the period of their attendance at the training, or for those who took annual leave, the leave records to be adjusted on the basis that they worked. The Fair Work Commission has ruled that “AnglicareSA is responsible for the provision of such training and the time spent completing the same is to be regarded as time worked and paid at ordinary time rates and the AnglicareSA nurses who complete such training must be paid or have their annual leave records adjusted accordingly.”
February 20, 2017
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service Brisbane Limited is facing a brace of s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) claims before Commissioner Simpson in his Brisbane chambers at 1pm (Renouf and Upkett).
February 20, 2017
Australian Retirement Holdings has been served with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) by a priest.
February 20, 2017
PresCare is to defend a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) launched in Sydney by ex-staffer Alderslade.
February 20, 2017
Compass Group (Australia) Pty Ltd has been ordered by the NSW Workers Compensation Commission to pay for a Nevro spinal cord stimulation trial for an injured employer (Deborah Joy Butler).
February 20, 2017
Anglicare Victoria has a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) listed for hearing before Deputy President Hamilton in Court 3 & Conference Room B – Level 6 in Melbourne at 10.15am (Humphreys).
February 20, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by nib health funds limited for its Nib Health Funds Limited Enterprise Agreement 2015 has been granted by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne.
February 20, 2017
Perth doctor has been banned from practising medicine after admitting to professional misconduct which included sexualised behaviour towards a patient, to whom he also over-prescribed potent medication. In a judgement published this week, the State Administrative Tribunal found the conduct of Gregory Duck amounted to “serious breaches” of the medical code for doctors, including “incompetence, poor medical practice and sexualised behaviour”. The tribunal was told Gregory Duck started seeing the woman in December 2012 when he obtained her history with methadone use. He then formed an inappropriate relationship with her that included taking her out to dinner, buying her gifts such as lingerie, which he photographed her in, and having consultations with her at his home. On one occasion the woman went to a hotel room where he was staying and after she took heroin and collapsed, Dr Duck did not call an ambulance, and instead stayed with her, alone in the room. The tribunal was told that on about 50 occasions over an 18-month period, Dr Duck prescribed the woman varying amounts of medications including Xanax and Valium. In some instances he wrote the prescriptions in the woman’s absence, and after paying for and collecting the drugs, kept them in a locked drawer in office to give to her.
