The Industrial Relations Court (SA) has ruled that the Chief Executive of the Department of the SA Premier and Cabinet (on behalf of the Department for Health and Ageing) does not have the right to exclude the Health Services union (SA/NT) or the Psychologists Association (SA Branch) from a hearing to determine the eligibility of public sector agency psychologists to progress to a higher wage classification.
January 11, 2017
Baptist Community Services has failed to persuade the NSW Workers Compensation Commission that it should review the decision to award Suzanne Mulley a second bite of the compensation cherry.
January 11, 2017
The NSW Workers Compensation Commission has refused an attempt by a community care worker (Fardiani Rhyder) to improve her injury payout from Catholic Healthcare Limited.
January 11, 2017
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.
