Affinity Health Pty Ltd & AME Properties Pty Ltd and Another is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) instigated by a staff member (Hill).
January 31, 2017
Bupa Aged Care Mosman is to face two s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) claims. Commissioner Riordan in the Fair Work Commission Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney will hear Tavassoli and Govender at 10am today.
January 30, 2017
A paramedic has been charged with stealing prescription drugs in the NSW Riverina. Staff at an ambulance station within the Griffith local area command allegedly noticed several kits containing bottles of the anaesthetic methoxyflurane missing from a secure location on January 15. Police on Friday charged a 52-year-old paramedic with nine counts of stealing as a clerk or servant and one count of self-administering a restricted substance. He has been bailed to face Narrandera Court on March 24.
January 30, 2017
A s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) by Andy Tan against the Pormpur Paanthu Aboriginal Corporation has been refused by Commissioner Saunders. Tan, together with his housemate Ms Laura Ramirez, gave evidence in support of his application for an extension of time. The respondent called for evidence from its Chief Executive Officer, Ms Ganthi Kuppusamy, and Senior Clinical Psychologist, Mr Marcin Ohl. The Fair Work Commissioner ruled that the application was not ‘exceptional’ and was ‘out of time’.
January 30, 2017
A Melbourne doctor who asked a vulnerable patient for sex while promising to help her get a disability pension has been allowed to keep practising despite a long history of serious complaints to regulators. The general practitioner is still treating patients without conditions on his registration, three and a half years after the latest allegations – and a damning string of text messages – were first brought to the attention of the Medical Board of Australia. A Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal panel recently found the female patient’s complaints against Glenroy-based Dr Hassan Alkazali were proven and constituted four counts of professional misconduct, with a determination on penalty due late next month. The panel accepted evidence that Dr Alkazali had asked the patient for sex over the phone and in dozens of text messages, and had tried to coach her on how to get a disability pension for schizophrenia, despite lacking evidence to reasonably believe she was schizophrenic. The text messages, reproduced in VCAT’s findings, show the doctor had responded to questions about the status of the patient’s pension application with: “But good dr needs good girl to play with.”
January 30, 2017
A Mosgiel woman swindled her ailing father and intellectually disabled brother out of $65,000 while she was supposed to be caring for them. Her father, before he died in August 2015, told one of his sons he suspected she was stealing from him but the son convinced him she would never do that. When he died, the truth came out. Judith Gale McMahon (52) appeared before the Dunedin District Court this week, after admitting three representative counts of theft. She had been granted interim name suppression until this week’s sentencing, when Judge Michael Crosbie refused an application to keep her identity under wraps permanently.
January 30, 2017
A s.222 (Application for approval of a termination of an enterprise agreement) by Guide Dogs Association of SA & NT Inc for its Guide Dogs Association of SA.NT Inc Enterprise Agreement 2013-2016 has been agreed by Commissioner Hampton in Adelaide on the 27 January 2017.
January 30, 2017
The Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria) is set to defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) at 10am before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne (Gourley).
