An application for approval of the St John of God Health Care Maintenance Caregivers Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be heard by Fair Work Commissioner Roe in his Melbourne Chambers this afternoon.
October 31, 2016
A woman has been charged with deception and theft after credit cards were stolen from nursing home residents in Melbourne. Police were alerted to the thefts when a 90-year-old Boronia resident noticed several purchases on his statement that he hadn’t made. The 36-year-old woman, from The Basin, was bailed to appear at the Ringwood Magistrates Court on April 28.
October 31, 2016
Labor’s newest recruit, Senator Kimberley Kitching, helped piece together shredded documents on the floor of the Health Services Union (HSU), in an attempt to see a factional enemy brought to justice, according to one of her parliamentary Labor colleagues. Member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby said Ms Kitching should be commended for helping clean up the trouble-plagued union, by leading hospital workers to search for incriminating evidence against former HSU secretary Kathy Jackson. “They arrived at the union in their South Melbourne headquarters, found these bags full of rubbish and reconstituted — like in the movie Argo — all of the shredded material, which the trade union royal commission didn’t want to originally receive,” Mr Danby said. “It was all the material on Kathy Jackson’s [alleged] malfeasance [and] the corruption of the union.” Ms Jackson is now facing dozens of charges of theft and deception over her time as head of the HSU.
October 31, 2016
Australian Government Aboriginal Hostels Ltd (AHL) has been served with a s.773 (Application to deal with an unlawful termination dispute) by ex-employee Johnson. Deputy President Bull will hear the application in Sydney.
October 31, 2016
Healthcare Imaging Services Pty Ltd is attempting to resolve a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) initiated by a staffer (Baker).
October 31, 2016
Suspected nursing home murder victim Marie Darragh’s daughters have broken down in court as an account of her autopsy unfolded before the jury. Accused double-murderer Megan Jean Haines sat in the Sydney Supreme Court dock as Lismore Hospital chief surgical dresser John Hall gave evidence via video link. Mr Hall spoke about transporting Ms Darragh and Isabella Spencer’s bodies from the aged care centre on May 10, 2014, to collect samples in the hospital’s mortuary. The description brought Ms Darragh’s daughters Janet Parkinson and Charli Darragh to tears, and they removed themselves from the courtroom.
October 31, 2016
An application for approval of the National Capital Private Hospital – HSU Non Clinical and Allied Health Employees – Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Deputy President Gostencnik in his Melbourne Chambers.
October 31, 2016
A Northern Territory Indigenous corporation has settled a legal challenge in the Federal Court with its former chief executive, who was sacked after he blew the whistle on financial irregularities. The Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Indigenous Corporation Board in Borroloola, in the Territory’s Gulf of Carpentaria country, sacked Michael Gravener in 2015. Former CEO Mr Gravener argued he was sacked after he raised concerns about how money allocated by governments to alleviate disadvantage in Borroloola’s remote Indigenous communities was being spent. He had only been employed at the corporation for nine weeks. Mabunji challenged Mr Gravener’s Federal Court case, but ultimately dropped its defence. Instead they offered Mr Gravener a settlement on the condition that he did not speak further about the case. The corporation’s current chief executive said the settlement would not affect the services it provided to Borroloola Indigenous communities, including housing maintenance and aged care, because its insurers would pay.
