An application for approval of the Calvary Retiremnet Community (New South Wales) and the Health Services Union – General Services Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for work approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be heard by Commissioner Johns in his Sydney Chambers.
October 17, 2016
A 56-year-old aged care worker has been killed by a falling tree in Melbourne’s east.
October 17, 2016
An Adelaide couple who worked for SA Health allegedly developed a “clever, sophisticated and well-executed” scam involving fake racist threats to receive benefits including taxpayer-funded accommodation and interstate trips, a court has heard. Tabitha Lean, 40, and Simon Craig Peisley, 37, have pleaded not guilty to 47 counts of deception and one count of attempted deception. The District Court heard the husband and wife were both employed in the Aboriginal Health Service division of SA Health and Lean was the director of that service. In opening the prosecution case to the jury, prosecutor Chris Edge said both of the accused orchestrated and authored threats relating to their jobs over a two-year period from 2012 to 2014 and also claimed they had received threatening phone calls.
October 14, 2016
The trial of a nurse accused of murdering two women in a nursing home on the New South Wales north coast has been shifted to Sydney, and will start for a third time next week. Forty-nine-year-old Megan Haines has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder. It has been alleged she gave fatal insulin injections to 82-year-old Marie Darragh and 77-year-old Isabella Spencer at the St Andrews aged-care centre in Ballina in May 2014. A second jury was discharged in the Supreme Court at Lismore today. The trial is due to start again on Monday.
October 14, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has granted a s.437-(Application for a protected action ballot order) made by Hammond Care. The application involved the proposed protected action ballot of employees of Hammond Care — form of question — permissibility of composite question seeking a single yes/no answer to whether multiple forms of industrial action are approved — extension of notice period. The matter was opposed by the ANF and the Health Services Union.
October 14, 2016
Mrs Leticia Liousas has been refused an extension of time to pursue an unfair dismissal claim against Aveo Group Limited
October 14, 2016
Kerry Ann Paltridge has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that she was unfairly dismissed by the Limestone Coat Health Unit Trust T/A Robe Medical Centre
October 14, 2016
Francis Logan has won her claim for reinstatement at the Bendigo Health Care Group. Commissioner Ryan in Melbourne ruled her dismissal was harsh. The termination letter given to her failed to identify her ‘serious misconduct’.
