The Health Services Union and Eastern Health are contesting a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E – Level 6 in Melbourne.
September 8, 2016
An application for approval of the Sigma (SA/NT) Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is being weighed by Commissioner Cirkovic in his Melbourne chambers.
September 8, 2016
An application for approval of the Ngala Registered and Enrolled Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is being considered by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne chambers.
September 7, 2016
Voluntary redundancies will be offered to nurses for the first time in South Australia as part of changes planned for hospitals in Adelaide’s south. As the Repatriation General Hospital closes at the end of next year and other changes are made in the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, more than 100 beds and 200 jobs will go. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation state secretary Elizabeth Dabars said she had an undertaking from the State Government that there would be no forced redundancies.
September 7, 2016
Monash Health is defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by Gwozdziewski.
September 7, 2016
Inner South-West Community Development Organisation is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) filed by ex-staffer Samuel.
September 7, 2016
Patient safety is being compromised due to rosters where doctors work up to 12 days without a break, a former Wairau Hospital doctor says. The New Zealand Resident Doctors’ Association (NZDRA) “Safer Hours” campaign is lobbying for DHBs reduce the rostering patterns in hospitals. Nelson Marlborough Health employs 80 resident doctors and the association identified 24 doctors working on three “affected rosters”. One of those rosters, at Wairau Hospital, required doctors to work up to seven consecutive night shifts and 12 days in a row. The health board had recently recruited new doctors at Wairau Hospital to address the issue. Nelson Marlborough Health acting general manager of clinical services Jane Kinsey said the changes meant by the end of November, once all new doctors were in place, the roster would have changed to the one that the NZRDA was asking for. Resident medical officer and NZRDA delegate Dr Liadhan Coakley worked at Wairau Hospital for 15 months, where she said the roster could include four day shifts followed by seven night shifts with two days off. She described the roster as “exhausting”.
September 7, 2016
Hawkesbury Community Outreach Services is dealing with a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) lodged by a staff member (Knott).
