NEWS-HR

A public hospital anaesthetist who was found in a drunken stupor after abandoning a patient mid-operation has been conditionally allowed to return to work just six weeks after the incident. Michal Petr, a senior anaesthetist at Wollongong Hospital, disappeared from the operating theatre on May 20 while his patient was still unconscious, without giving handover instructions to the junior anaesthetist. He had been at the funeral of an anaesthetic nurse earlier that day.

JLL has promoted six of its team to Asia Pacific Regional Director. They are the head of Health and Aged Care and Student Accommodation Services, Noral Wild; the head of NSW Valuations & Advisory, Tyrone Hodge; the head of Finance Australia, Kim Hicks; the director of Business Technology, Property & Asset Management, Carolyn Trickett; the Victorian Head of Tenant Representation, Peter Walsh; and the head of Business Transformation, Integrated Facilities management, Phil Clark.

The Health Services Union and the Department of Health and Human Services will go toe to toe over a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) which will be heard by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Court E – Level 6 – in Melbourne at 10am.

Western District Health Service has been asked to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by ex-staffer (Gerber).

Hepburn Health Service is embroiled in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E – Level 6, Melbourne at 2pm (Duclos).

Geraldton Regional Aboriginal Medical Service is the respondent in a s.382 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) initiated by staffer (Gregory).

An application for approval of the Council on the Ageing (Victoria) Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is before Commissioner Saunders for a decision.

Anglican Retirement Villages (ARV) is up against a staff member (Shawl) over a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) and is now before Deputy President Booth in his chambers.