A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from the Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance Incorporated for its Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance – Clerical Employees – Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020 has been ratified by Commissioner Lee.
January 30, 2017
A female mental health patient is alleged to have caused a fire at Robina Hospital at the weekend with a hidden cigarette lighter. Gold Coast Health said 16 patients and “multiple staff” were safely evacuated after a fire in the acute mental health ward about 3am on Sunday.
January 30, 2017
An application for approval of the SwanCare Group Incorporated (ANF) Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne chambers today.
January 30, 2017
Yvonne Tebbutt has got the NSW Workers Compensation Commission to force the State of New South Wales – Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (incorrectly sued as Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital) to reassess her injury claim. Ms Tebbutt has developed a consequential condition, namely fibromyalgia, which allegedly results from her accepted primary psychological injury.
January 30, 2017
Family and friends are reaching out for help to bring home an Australian woman who remains in a Thai hospital 10 days after a motorcycle accident that left her fighting for life and struggling to pay thousands of dollars in medical bills. Australian tourist Dawn Weldon was riding a moped with her 14-year-old son on January 15, when she collided head-on with a truck in the Thai resort district of Ko Lanta. The 53-year-old nurse from Valla on the New South Wales Mid North Coast suffered a brain injury, a fractured skull and broke 15 separate bones, but the severe injuries were only the beginning of her ordeal. Her family says the Krabi Government Hospital will not discharge her to receive much-needed treatment in Australia, until a mounting medical bill is paid.
January 30, 2017
The Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council is facing a s.773 (Application to deal with an unlawful termination dispute) lodged by an ex-staffer (Smith).
January 30, 2017
John Richard Miles died in the course of his employment on 18 October 2010. The employer has admitted liability in respect of the death and is liable to pay compensation pursuant to s 25 of the 1987 Act. The only issue for determination is the question of dependency of his former wife and child. His de-facto partner (AJ) is to finally be paid $455,900 by Miles employer Contract Pharmaceutical Services of Australia Pty Ltd. The process has taken 6 years.
January 30, 2017
A man charged with assaulting two paramedics who came to his aid after being found drunk and passed out on a footpath has been denied bail. Tony Lev Charlie, 61, was allegedly more than four times the legal limit when he punched a male paramedic and bit a second officer in the back of an ambulance.
