NEWS-HR

The Bennett Aged Care Group is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) by an ext staffer (Westerholm).

The Health Services Union and Eskleigh Foundation Inc are bogged in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cirkovic in Melbourne.

Bentleigh Bayside Community Health is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) kickstarted by Sherlock.

Nurses at The Canberra Hospital have been administering powerful anaesthetic drugs during endoscopies for more than a decade without the supervision of suitably qualified doctors, in contravention of the College of Anaesthetists’ guidelines.

The Trustees of the Christian Brothers are facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) instigated by ex employee (Harb).

A trainee pharmacist who stole pharmaceuticals from her employer and supplied them to private clients has been convicted of theft in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court. Shadi Kazeme pleaded guilty to two counts of theft from the Como Compounding Pharmacy in South Yarra. Court documents show that over a 16-month period — from February 2014 to mid 2015 — Kazeme sent dozens of parcels containing substances including peptides, hormones and fertility drugs.

An application for approval of The Smith Family (Villawood Site) Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is the preserve of Deputy President Gostencnik in his Melbourne Chambers.

The jobs of a dozen Queensland child safety staff are on the line after a report exposed “serious errors of judgment” in the handling of the case of dead toddler Mason Jet Lee. Child Safety Minister Shannon Fentiman on Wednesday revealed three staff had been immediately stood down on full pay and a further nine were facing an ethical standards investigation into the matter.