NEWS-HR

Nurses have thrown their support behind a push for South Australia to become the first state to legalise euthanasia after proponents of change agreed to new safeguards limiting when it can be used. Euthanasia supporters Steph Key and Duncan McFetridge, Labor and Liberal MPs respectively, have circulated planned amendments to colleagues ahead of a vote expected in Parliament on Thursday that will determine if the proposal is further debated in detail.

The Fair Work Commission has approved the Wheatfields Incorporated application for its Wheatfields Incorporated Nursing Employess (Aged Care) & ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2016.

The Australian Medical Association (Act) Limited is embroiled in a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Deputy President Dean in Conference Room 1 in the ACT (Ozolinis).

The Fair Work Commission is in lockstep with the Ballarat District Nursing and Healthcare Inc T/A BDNH Group application for its Ballarat and District Nursing and Healthcare Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019.

The Fair Work Commission is going along with the application by Mater Misericordiae Health Services Brisbane Limited T/A Mater Hospital Brisbane for its Mater Health Services Visiting Medical Officers’ Enterprise Agreement 2015.

The Fair Work Commission has ratified the Mayo Home Nursing Service and Hunter Nursing Nurses and Support Services Enterprise Agreement 2016.

The Fair Work Commission has ratified an application by the Grand Lodge of Western Australia Freemasons Homes for the Ged Incorporated T/A MASONIC Care WA for its Howard Solomon Therapy Assistants Enterprise Agreement 2016.

The National Health Cooperative is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) launched by a disaffected staffer (Mugabi).