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.
August 31, 2016
The Health Services Union and Department of Health and Human Services are arm-wrestling a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F Level 6 in Melbourne.
August 31, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has given its consent to ratifying the Victorian Stand Alone Community Health General Dentists Multi-Employer Enterprise Agreement 2015-2017.
August 31, 2016
Thieves stole mobility scooters from a Geelong retirement village and trashed them in a “demolition derby” at a nearby park. The theft has outraged elderly residents at Townsend Gardens in St Albans Park with some people now left confined to their units
August 31, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has approved the St John of God Pathology WA HSUWA Caregive Enterprise Agreement 2016.
August 31, 2016
The revolving door at chief executive level at Hills Ltd is spinning almost as fast as the company’s famous Hills hoist clothesline in a strong wind. But the new boss, David Lenz, who has been promoted from within and takes over on September 1 from Grant Logan, who is retiring after 15 months at the helm, says he will take a steady approach in generating growth and an important priority is talks with retailing giant Woolworths.
August 31, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has agreed with Southern Cross Care (Vic) and terminated the Mordialloc Community Nursing Home Inc (Trading as Mordialloc Community Nursing Home), ANF and HSU Enterprise Agreement 2009.
