A Brisbane man accused of posing as a qualified paramedic is facing jail after he allegedly gave almost 140 people flu injections at a central Queensland coal port.
February 14, 2017
Quad Services Pty Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner McKenna in the Fair Work Commission Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney at 2pm (Cohen).
February 13, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Grow for its Grow Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Saunders in Sydney today.
February 13, 2017
Prominent Ballarat businesses will be outed for underpaying workers and bullying behaviour at a Senate Inquiry into worker exploitation due to sit in Ballarat in mid-March. One business to be named at the inquiry next month has been taken to Federal Court by several staff for underpayment only to reach a confidential agreement each time, Ballarat Trades Hall secretary Brett Edgington said. According to Mr Edgington, one of the worst offenders is a Ballarat business which employs between 60 and 90 staff across several venues, and pays more than half its employees “off the book”. One private residential aged care facility reported to Trades Hall pays staff a flat overnight rate of $100 for shifts as long as 12 hours, often overseeing high risk patients.
February 13, 2017
Sigma Company Limited is facing a s.304 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staff member (Mitchell) in Darwin.
February 13, 2017
The prosecution over the death of a worker on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will not go to trial after the State Government dropped all charges against the hospital’s builder. The state’s construction union was this afternoon informed through the Attorney General’s department that SafeWork SA had dropped its prosecution against HYLC and sub-contractor SRG Building over the death of Jorge Castillo Riffo in November 2014. Mr Riffo was working on a scissor lift at the site when he was crushed against concrete. The prosecution against HYLC and sub-contractor SRG Building for alleged workplace safety breaches was set down for a 10-day trial from today.
February 13, 2017
A s.210 (Enterprise agreement) variation application by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation for the Toosey Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2015 has been agreed by Senior Deputy President Hamberger in Sydney on the 9 February 2017.
February 10, 2017
A de facto carer who instructed two intellectually disabled people to participate in sex acts while he filmed them has been jailed for at least two-and-a-half years. The 55-year-old-man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was found guilty of two counts of rape and two counts of indecent filming, and pleaded guilty to threatening another carer who found out about the abuse. South Australia’s District Court heard the man had been a de facto carer to a young intellectually disabled woman.
