An application by Health Services Union (s.437 – Application for a protected action ballot order) will be determined by Commissioner Lee.
November 21, 2016
Former union official Derrick Belan and his niece, bookkeeper Danielle O’Brien, have been arrested and charged with a series of fraud-related offences worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The 45-year-old former New South Wales secretary of the National Union of Workers was arrested at his home at Berkshire Park in western Sydney yesterday and charged with 24 fraud-related offences worth $440,000 and two counts of belonging to a criminal group. Police alleged the pair misused union credit cards, processed false invoices and made fraudulent electronic transfers and withdrawals of funds from union accounts.
November 21, 2016
An application for approval of the St John of God Health Care – HSU – Health Professionals, Administrative, Clerical and Technical Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is being heard by Commissioner Lee in his Melbourne Chambers.
November 21, 2016
Calvary Home Care Services Ltd is dealing with a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Commissioner Wilson (Seehomchai).
November 18, 2016
An application for approval of the Alzheimer’s Australia Vic Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is before Commissioner Saunders in his Sydney Chambers.
November 18, 2016
An application by United Voice & Health Services Union (s.160 – Application to vary a modern award to remove ambiguity or uncertainty or correct error) is being heard by Deputy President Booth in Conference Rooms 14A and 14 B – Level 14 in Sydney at 10am.
November 18, 2016
Community Services #1 Incorporated is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by Robertson.
November 18, 2016
Relatives of 11 nursing home patients who died after carer Roger Dean lit two fires can rest assured he will die in jail. The mass murderer lost his bid to challenge his life sentences in the High Court. Before losing his challenge in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal last December, some relatives had described the great stress they suffered every time the matter resurfaced in a courtroom. The then 37-year-old, a registered nurse for 15 years, pleaded guilty to murdering the patients at Quaker’s Hill nursing home in Sydney’s west in November, 2011. He lit two fires after discovering police were investigating his theft of 200 prescription pills from the home. He received 11 life sentences in 2013. His barrister Tim Game SC argued various grounds in the High Court, including criticising “the structure” of the sentence imposed. But Kara Shead, for the Crown, submitted that after taking into account the evidence in this case — no matter what processes were involved — “no other conclusion could have been reached”. The two judges, sitting in Sydney, refused to give him the go-ahead to appeal, concluding there would be no prospects that a challenge would be successful.
