An application for approval of the HammondCare Dementia Specific Employees, Residential Nurses, Care and Support Services Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is being heard by Commissioner Johns.
September 2, 2016
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) will be adjudicated by Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne at 1pm.
September 2, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has said OK to the Melaleuca Home for the Aged Inc Registered Nurse and Enrolled Nurse Enterprise Agreement 2016.
September 2, 2016
An application for approval of the Sir John Monash Private Hospital Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is to be heard by Commissioner Gregory in the Fair Work Commission at 11 Exhibition Street in Melbourne this afternoon.
September 2, 2016
An application for approval of the Ballarat Hospice care Inc Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is for determination by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne chambers.
September 1, 2016
Kathy Jackson, the former head of the Health Services Union, is facing 70 counts of theft and deception-related offences, as part of an ongoing investigation, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) says. Jackson, 49, will appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on September 19. The charges were laid by Taskforce Heracles, including the AFP and Victoria Police, which was established to investigate matters arising from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption and Governance. In August 2015, Jackson was ordered to pay $1.4 million to her former employer after the Federal Court, in civil proceedings, found she used union money to fund a lavish lifestyle. She declared bankruptcy just before the Federal Court trial and chose not to attend. The HSU sued Jackson in a civil case in the Federal Court alleging she had set up a slush fund using the proceeds of a union settlement with the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
September 1, 2016
An application by Queensland Nurses’ Union of Employees (s.225 – application for termination of an enterprise agreement after its nominal expiry date) will be heard today by Commissioner Booth in Conference Room A in Brisbane.
September 1, 2016
The trial of a Newcastle nursing home employee charged with murdering two elderly residents and attempting to murder a third has been told he had the ability and opportunity to commit the crimes. Garry Steven Davis, 29, is accused of injecting the residents with large doses of insulin at the SummitCare facility in Wallsend, over a two-day period in October 2013. Gwen Fowler, 83, and Ryan Kelly, 80, died as a result of the injections, while Audrey Manuel, 91, recovered but has since died from unrelated causes. Davis was a team leader at the nursing home. On the opening day of his trial in the NSW Supreme Court in Newcastle, Crown Prosecutor Lee Carr said none of the victims required the drug. “All three … were non-insulin dependent residents,” he said. Mrs Fowler had type 2 diabetes but it was being managed without insulin. After being found in her room unresponsive on October 18, 2013 she was taken to John Hunter Hospital and later returned to the nursing home for palliative care She died the next day and initially, her death raised no suspicions. On October 19 Mrs Manuel also displayed symptoms of being hypoglycaemic and hypothermic. Later that day Mr Kelly became similarly unwell. He died 10 days later. A doctor who noted the similarities between what happened to Mrs Manuel and Mr Kelly became suspicious. Mr Carr said test results showed “large levels of insulin in the blood that was not naturally occurring”. The court heard that from January 2013 a new policy came into effect preventing team leaders at SummitCare from administering drugs such as insulin. All three residents were said to have been in relatively good health before the incidents. Prosecutor Lee Carr said they were “well liked, a pleasure to deal with”. The evidence against Davis includes text messages sent to colleagues, in which he predicted two of the nursing home’s residents would die.
