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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.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Serco Australia Pty Ltd T/A Serco for its Serco Acacia Prison Nurses (ANF) Collective Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Roe.

Regis Aged Care Pty Ltd has to combat a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by ex-staffer Sharma in Sydney.

Patients were briefly evacuated from St John of God hospital in Mt Lawley this afternoon after a fire broke out in the building.