NEWS-HR

The Health Services Union and Goulburn Valley Health are embroiled in a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb.

Mercy Public Hospital Inc is facing a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) instigated by an ex-staff member (Born).

Jasmeen Kaur has failed in her unfair dismissal claim against The Frank Whiddon Masonic Homes of New South Wales despite being legally represented. Whiddon terminated Ms Kaur’s employment on 11 February 2016 following an incident on 9 January 2016, in which a client, a resident of the nursing home at which Ms Kaur worked, had a fall. Ms Kaur sent the client to hospital the next day, where it was revealed that he client had a broken hip.

Frank Whiddon Masonic Homes of New South Wales Pty Ltd is to face a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) lodged by a Weaver.

Cuts to paramedics’ working conditions could force many on to welfare if they are badly hurt on the job, union leaders claim. Income protection for injured workers has been drastically cut by the NSW government under a watered-down Death and Disability scheme that kicks off at the weekend, the Australian Paramedics Association (APA) NSW says. Under the changes, paramedics who become partially disabled will receive payments worth 75 per cent of their base wage nine months following their injury, APA president Stephen Pearce says. But the payments will stop after two years, leaving workers at risk of losing their homes, he claims.

All Aged Care is set for the challenge of a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) instigated by Wolejko.

An application for approval of the St John Ambulance (NT) Inc Corporate Services Agreement 2016-2019 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is sitting with Commissioner Saunders in Sydney chambers.

Woomera Aboriginal Corporation is arm-wrestling a staffer (Goldsworthy) over a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes).