OCCUPATIONAL DISCIPLINE – Nurses – unsatisfactory professional performance – failure to comply with asserted unwritten organisational policy – no evidence as to existence or terms of unwritten policy – activity alleged to be outside scope of practice – context is relevant to scope of practice – failure to communicate to health care team information necessary for optimal nursing care – breach of National Competency Standards/Dianne Tai cautioned.
July 18, 2016
The firm about to take over Geelong’s leading pathology service has rejected union claims large-scale job losses are planned or that the city’s public and private patients will see their medical tests delayed. Australian Clinical Labs announced last month it was buying out St John of God Pathology, which runs Geelong’s major medical testing laboratory and 35 collection centres in the region. Those sites and 300 workers from the region will be transferred to ACL when the sale is finalised later this year, as will the contract to provide medical testing for public patients treated by Barwon Health. Despite assurances from SJGP that jobs would be protected in the sale, the Medical Scientists Association of Victoria told workers late last month it believed 200 jobs would be at risk within two years of the sale.
July 18, 2016
OCCUPATIONAL DISCIPLINE – Nurses – consent orders – unsatisfactory professional performance – failure to advise procedure outside scope of practice – failure to question appropriateness of procedure/Caitlyn Izzard cautioned.
July 15, 2016
Tasmanian paramedics are starting to scale back their industrial action after making a significant step forward in negotiations for a new pay deal. After months of protracted negotiations, the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) has claimed a breakthrough. The union’s Tim Jacobson said an offer of an 8 per cent pay rise over four years backdated to 2014 had been put on the table by Government negotiators. He believes it is more than the 5 per cent HACSU had previously been asking for. “The wages offer itself is superior, it backdates and pays increases that were owed to our members,” he said. Paramedics’ pay has been the subject of a long and bitter dispute, that resulted in workers writing anti-government messages on ambulances and refusing to do some overtime.
July 15, 2016
Aveo Group Limited has been summoned to answer a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by a disaffected Liousas.
July 15, 2016
Ms Ajok Mabior has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission to allow her more time to pursue for unfair dismissal.
July 15, 2016
Russell Vilsten has been refused an extension of time to chase Southern Cross Care (Vic) over his dismissal. The decision was made by Fair Work Commissioner Wilson in Melbourne.
July 15, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has kicked the “ball into touch” and refused to indulge either Ms Milagros Isturiz-Moron or Northside Community Services Limited. Deputy President Kovacic instead called the contest a nil-all draw.
