The Fair Work Commission has approved a s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Matthew Flinders Home Inc T/A Matthew Flinders Care Services for its Matthew Flinders Home Inc Nursing Employees & ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2015.
January 11, 2017
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Gary Mitchell’s claim for damages for non-economic loss is not predicated as a consequence of an earlier Certificate of Determination of the Medical panel dated 19 October 2015.
January 11, 2017
A 2.5 per cent wage increase, safer hospital staffing levels and special leave with pay for employees experiencing domestic violence are conditions in a new pay deal approved by the SA state nurses and midwives. After months of negotiations, about 17,000 public sector staff in SA have agreed to a new three-year enterprise bargaining agreement with the State Government. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (SA) chief executive officer Associate Professor Elizabeth Dabars said ballot results secured new and better staffing levels, job security wages, conditions and wages.
January 11, 2017
Coupe Care Pty Ltd made an application to appeal against a medical assessment to the Register of the Workers Compensation Commission. The Medical Assessment was made by Dr Chris Oates, an Approved Medical Specialist (AMS). The respondent to the appeal is Glenn Thomas Riley. The workers compensation insurer is QBE Workers Compensation (NSW) Limited. The matter involves a claim for permanent impairment under the workers compensation legislation (the Workers Compensation Act 1987 and the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998). But the Appeal Panel found that although the AMS “may have been in error in assessing Scaring, his determination of WPI was correct.” The Panel ruled the original medical assessment certificate should stand.
January 11, 2017
A s.185 (Application for approval of a multi-enterprise agreement) by Neighbourhood Houses Victoria for its Neighbourhood Houses and Adult Community Education Centres Collective Agreement 2016 has been granted by Commissioner Booth in Brisbane.
January 11, 2017
A nurse who stole 1l boxes of a restricted drug from her employer and a hospital nurse who stole a doctor’s script pad and forged prescriptions to get drugs have been disqualified. Dorothy Macdonald, 63, a nurse for 40 years, took 11 boxes of antipsychotic drug Seroquel, containing 110 tablets, from her workplace, Q-Medical Centre at Woodridge. She was a passenger in a car when the driver was pulled over for a random breath test in 2013 and a search of the vehicle revealed the drugs. Ms Macdonald first told police it was her medication, for her daughter, but later changed her story. The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal found her guilty of professional misconduct and suspended her registration for six months.
January 10, 2017
An elderly man has suffered horrifying facial injuries after he was allegedly bashed inside a retirement village over an alleged stolen coffee mug on Saturday. The 88-year-old retiree living in The Haven suffered bleeding to the brain after he was viciously assaulted by another tenant at the centre, police claim. An altercation broke out between the victim and a 69-year-old man after the alleged assailant accused the 88-year-old of stealing his favourite coffee mug. It is believed the older resident denied the allegations, before he was punched in the head multiple times.
January 10, 2017
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Western Health have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne at 3.30pm.
