Disability services provider Yooralla is on the hunt for a new chief information officer after the resignation of the organisation’s current IT chief, Michael Estcourt.
September 19, 2016
A man and a woman have been charged with a string of offences after allegedly stealing a handbag from an aged care nurse who devoted her life to helping others as as she lay dying after an horrific accident at North Gosford. Police allege the pair then went on a shopping spree with the victim’s credit cards.
September 19, 2016
Lane Cove Retirement Units Association Ltd is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) implemented by an ex-staffer (Allan).
September 19, 2016
The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association and Estia Investments Pty Ltd have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney.
September 19, 2016
Community Services #1 Incorporated will fight a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by a disaffected Robertson.
September 19, 2016
An application for approval of the Back in Motion Health Group Campbelltown Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) as well as an application for approval of the Back in Motion Health Group Valley View Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will both be heard by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne chambers.
September 19, 2016
Competition for nurses is heating up, with some employers offering six weeks’ holidays as major hospital operators warn that any significant increases in pay and entitlements, or restrictions on supply, will affect them greatly. In nursing, an ageing workforce, maldistribution of staff and little increase in productivity or clinical roles has created a fractious environment where new graduates often take jobs elsewhere while some employers continue to seek nurses overseas. In an effort to maintain its supply, Queensland’s Palaszczuk Labor government is finalising an enterprise bargaining agreement that will deliver nurses a 2.5 per cent pay rise backdated to April and another 2.5 per cent in April next year. The state is also opening up to 1000 additional graduate nurse positions every year to retain more young staff. Public hospital nurses in Queensland are entitled to up to six weeks’ holiday, like their counterparts in Victoria, but nurses in NSW receive only four weeks. Changes in hospital management structures have altered the manner in which nurses, and agency nurses, are paid. Private hospital networks Ramsay and Healthscope have warned that nursing labour is their biggest operating cost and any major changes to remuneration or availability — including access to overseas-trained nurses — will make services more expensive and potentially unviable.
September 13, 2016
TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT – high income threshold – ss.394, 400, 604 Fair Work Act 2009 – permission to appeal – Full Bench – at first instance Commission upheld respondent’s jurisdictional objection – found appellant’s salary exceeded the high income threshold and he was not covered by an industrial award or agreement – appellant sought permission to appeal on the basis that the Commission omitted appellant’s written final submissions and erroneously applied the ‘principle purpose test’ – whether in public interest, where the test is ‘a discretionary one involved a broad value judgment’ [Coal & Allied] – whether decision at first instance involved a ‘significant error of fact’, the test being ‘a stringent one’ [Coal & Allied] – rarely appropriate to grant permission to appeal unless an arguable case of appealable error is demonstrated, simply because an appeal cannot succeed in the absence of appealable error [Wan] – the fact that even if a Member of the Commission made an error, this is not necessarily a sufficient basis for the grant of permission to appeal [GlaxoSmithKline] – Full Bench not satisfied appellant demonstrated any reasonably arguable case of error on the part of the Commission in determining that his employment was not covered by the Commercial Sales Award 2010 – found no error in the Commission’s approach to the application of the principal purpose test – Full Bench could not detect any significant error of fact or error of law – no basis to grant permission to appeal – not in public interest – permission to appeal refused. Appeal by Graham against decision and order of Drake SDP of 15 June 2016 [[2016] FWC 3525] and [PR581332] Re: Globus Medical Australia P/L
