NEWS-HR

A s.185 (Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) by Warrina Innisfail for its Warrina Innisfail and Administration Staff Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been ratified by Commissioner Roe in Melbourne on the 23 January 2017.

A generator failure at Flinders Medical Centre during South Australia’s statewide blackout was most likely due to human error, according to the independent review of September’s extreme weather event in South Australia.

Quad Partnership has been served with a (s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy) notice by ex-staffer Cohen).

Community Services #1 Incorporated is to fight a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before FWC Senior Deputy President Drake in his Sydney chambers at 9.15 (Robertson).

Uniting NSW ACT T/A Medically Supervised Injecting Centre and the War Memorial Hospital (Waverley) has had its application for its Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) and War Memorial Hospital (Waverley) (WMH) Health Service Employees Agreement 2016 approved by Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne on the 23 January 2017.

Business and coalition figures have seized on the resignation of a senior member of the Fair Work Commission to call for a rethink on workplace laws. Commission vice president Graeme Watson launched a scathing attack in his letter of resignation, which came as a surprise to FWC president Iain Ross. “There is an increasing understanding in the business community that the Fair Work Commission is partisan, dysfunctional and divided,” Mr Watson wrote in the letter, which was copied to the federal minister Michaelia Cash. Mr Watson, who has been a member of the commission since June 2006, said it had become clear the workplace system was “actually undermining the objects of the Fair Work legislation”.

SA Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia is defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Deputy President Bartel in his Adelaide chambers (Nippress).

Uniting Care Wesley Bowden is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by Contreras in Adelaide.