An application by Health Services Union (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) is due for determination by Commissioner Cribb in the Fair Work Commission 11 Exhibition Street Melbourne at 2pm today.
February 3, 2017
BUPA Care Services Pty Limited is challenging the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association in a s.604 (Appeal of decisions) before the Full Bench Fair Work Commission at 11 Exhibition Street Melbourne at 10am today.
February 3, 2017
Ceduna Koonibba Aboriginal Health Service (Aboriginal Corporation) is on the receiving ed of a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an out-of-sorts O’Loughlin.
February 3, 2017
Flinders Private Hospital is to deal with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Platt in the Fair Work Commission Level 6 Riverside Centre North Terrace Adelaide at 10am (Lee).
February 2, 2017
Adam Felkin has been refused permission by the FWC full bench to reopen his unfair dismissal settlement with his ex-employer Pathfinders Ltd. “Mr Felkin has brought forward nothing that would suggest that the settlement agreement was the product of extreme pressure or that it was anything other than an agreement entered into freely. He has also not brought forward anything that would suggest that there is an arguable case of appealable error in the expression made by Drake SDP that his dismissal was not harsh, unjust or unreasonable, based on the evidence before Drake SDP in her capacity as a private arbitrator.” So there the matter now rests.
February 2, 2017
The head of two major city hospitals has been sacked just 16 months into a five-year contract for a failure to “collaborate”. Central Adelaide Local Health Network chief executive Julia Squire was scheduled to return from personal leave on Tuesday but will instead permanently leave the service after she was dismissed by SA Health chief executive Vickie Kaminski. Ms Kaminski said she’d decided Ms Squire’s future on Monday night, a comment derided as “nonsense” by Transforming Health critic Warren Jones, who said the decision had been made two weeks ago. She said SA Health deputy chief executive Len Richards would continue to act as CALHN chief executive, and bring the consultative approach it needed. “Looking what we need to do over the next short while as we get ready to transition into the new RAH, we really need somebody with a more collaborative, more consultative style and that’s what we think Len Richards brings to the role in the interim,” she said. “What we need to do is to give people an opportunity to feel included in the decisions — if people plan the battle they don’t battle the plan — so we have to have them involved and looking at what it is that we’re going to be doing in the new RAH, how we’re going to be looking after patients.” CALHN takes in the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Queen Adelaide Hospital. It’s unclear how much Ms Squire will be paid out but Opposition health spokesman Stephen Wade said he understood it would be in excess of $300,000.
February 2, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation for its Abbotsford Private Hospital & Blackwood River Clinic Registered and Enrolled Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne yesterday.
February 2, 2017
The IRT Group has appointed aged care industry expert Patrick Reid and Illawarra businessman Peter Fitzgerald to its board.
