Blue Cross Community Care Services (Toorak) Pty Ltd is today dealing with a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) initiated by a staff member (Mcilvenna).
July 6, 2016
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (s.238 – application for a scope order) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Hearing Room 6.1 – Level 6 in Adelaide.
July 6, 2016
The Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union – New South Wales and ACT (Services) Branch and House with No Steps have a s.576(2)(aa) (promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes before Fair Work Deputy President Booth at 49 Blackbutts Road Belrose.
July 6, 2016
Austin Health has launched proceedings against Khalid Hijazeen in the Federal Circuit Court. Industrial law – application by respondent pursuant to s.17A of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999 for summary dismissal of application – applicant unable to file statement of claim disclosing a justiciable claim despite five attempts – applicant readily conceding inadequacy of statement of claim – whether applicant should be given one last chance – court deciding on balance to give applicant opportunity to re-plead – applicant to pay respondent’s costs.
July 6, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has granted a s.18(a) RO Act (application for registration by an association of employers) by the Health Services Association of New South Wales.
July 6, 2016
A registered nurse has been suspended for four months after inappropriately accessing patient information, despite those patients not being in her care. Balvinder Toor, who worked in Palmerston North, accessed and viewed electronic clinical records of 34 patients on 173 occasions between October 1, 2011 and October 30, 2012. Whenever a staff member of the MidCentral District Health Board (MDHB) logged into the electronic management system they were met with a warning about patient confidentiality, and told that the system audits every access to patients’ data. Despite these warnings, Ms Toor repeatedly accessed the confidential information.
July 5, 2016
A Christchurch woman with power of attorney over an intellectually disabled woman has today admitted stealing more than $110,000 over six years to fund her pokies gambling habit. The 66-year-old problem gambler, who has interim name suppression, had enduring power of attorney over the woman from 1997 to February last year, Christchurch District Court heard. But between May 2009 and February 18 last year, she made 450 fraudulent transactions from the victim’s bank accounts, the police summary of facts says. The majority of the transactions were made at bars, taverns, and gaming establishments around Christchurch, the West Coast of the South Island, and Auckland. In 2013, the woman broke four-term deposits and deposited a bank cheque into her personal bank account. Judge Jane Farish called for a reparation report ahead of sentencing on September 20.
July 5, 2016
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.
