Nurses and midwives in South Australia have called on the state’s senators to help vote down the federal government’s proposed changes to paid parental leave. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has launched an online petition as it campaigns against the coalition’s plans to stop new parents receiving the full 18 weeks of government-funded leave if their employer offers a more generous scheme.
November 15, 2016
Barwon Health has a brace of s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne (Fleeton/Smith).
November 15, 2016
Queensland opposition claims increasing fortnightly overruns in the state’s infamous health payroll system are proof the Palaszczuk government is not managing the issue effectively. Liberal National Party leader Tim Nicholls said his party inherited weekly over and underpayments of about $1.7 million and reduced that to about $600,000. But he said the situation was deteriorating under Labor, with new figures showing the pay cycle was misfiring by about $770,000 a fortnight. “This is a sign of a government that is taking its eye off the ball,” Mr Nicholls said. “Public administration is Labor’s Achilles’ heel.” The executive director of Queensland Health’s payroll portfolio Philip Hood said the department processed about $193 million worth of payments each fortnight.
November 15, 2016
Malanda and District RSL and Citizens Memorial Club Inc. is troubled by a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) foisted on it by A Dickerson.
November 15, 2016
Healthcare Australia Pty Ltd is set to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) launched by ex-employee (Sommer).
November 15, 2016
A highly paid leader of the Health Services Union who cashed out 12 weeks’ maternity leave as a salary top-up has been accused of damaging the foundations of an important entitlement that gives time off for working mothers. Diana Asmar, the highest-paid union official in Australia at the time, took the $25,975 entitlement as cash rather than using it as leave in the 2015 financial year. Ms Asmar, elected secretary of the Victoria-based HSU No 1 branch with the key backing of federal Labor leader Bill Shorten, also cashed out $24,035 of annual leave in the same year. As a result, Ms Asmar took no leave. But total leave payouts added $50,000 to her salary, which was then almost $180,000, according to financial reports. Ms Asmar had recently given birth to her second child. Experts on women’s employment say the maternity leave payout is unprecedented, and undermines a hard-fought entitlement for women in the workforce that was intended as time off — never as a “double-dip” cash bonus. Senior union officials are also disturbed about Ms Asmar’s payout, saying it devalues the entitlement if a child’s birth can be used to extract extra cash from an employer — in this case a union.
November 14, 2016
A rest home carer with 25 years of experience swiped an elderly patient’s bank card from his wallet. Ziena Teirikowhai Wall was sentenced to a year’s intensive supervision when she appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Tuesday, on two charges of using a bank card to pecuniary advantage. Court documents reveal Wall, 50, had been working at the Alphacare Riverview rest home in Claudelands on April 12 this year when, in the course of doing her nightly rounds, she entered the room of an elderly patient with dementia. She saw the man’s wallet lying on a table and took from it an ANZ bankcard.
November 14, 2016
Ballarat Health Services is set to defend a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) instituted by staff members (Jeffs).
