An application for approval of the Mt St Vincent Nursing Home and Therapy Centre Staff Agreement 2015 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is being reviewed by Deputy President Gostencnik in Melbourne chambers.
June 10, 2016
The Health Services Union and Clinical Laboratories Pty Ltd are engaged in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute).
June 10, 2016
TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT – misconduct – s.394 Fair Work Act 2009 – application for relief from unfair dismissal – applicant terminated for exchanging inappropriate emails with colleague – applicant submitted her actions did not constitute breach of the respondent’s Responsible Use of Technology policy and there was no evidence of harm or damage caused by her actions – applicant further submitted respondent did not give sufficient weight to her lengthy and previously unblemished service, or her remorse – respondent submitted it had a valid reason for termination and that termination was a proportionate response – consideration of valid reason requires mitigating factors to be considered [Parmalat] – no valid reason for termination – applicant notified of reason for termination – applicant permitted a support person – application granted – applicant reinstated with continuity of service – payment for lost wages refused because of applicant’s failure to mitigate loss since dismissal. Beamish v Calvary Health Care Tasmania Limited t/a Calvary Health Care Tasmania
June 9, 2016
Mental health workers at Sunshine Hospital stopped work yesterday with assaults on staff one of their primary concerns. Health and Community Services Union spokesman Joe Taylor said between 20 to 30 employees from the Sunshine Mental Health Service stopped work in the afternoon to demonstrate outside the hospital.
June 9, 2016
Significant government failings did not contribute to a 17-year-old’s death, despite there being “no doubt that things should have been done better” by her carers, an inquest has found. Maddy Downman, 17, took her own life in a Darwin residential care house run by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) on June 6, 2014.
June 9, 2016
A caregiver who ripped off a 92-year-old woman for $36,000 will be housebound for the next seven months. Lisa Donnelly appeared in Auckland District Court this morning after previously pleading guilty to two counts of using a document for a pecuniary advantage. She was home-care assistant for a 92-year-old woman living alone on Waiheke Island but while carrying out her duties Donnelly stole the victim’s ANZ bank card.
June 9, 2016
A woman fined $120,000 for fabricating 11 bogus qualifications in aged and disability care used them to trick the training regulator into setting up her own private training college. Sydney woman Synthia Restar revealed yesterday that she is now running a “nursing agency”, MPJEL Care, despite losing registration for her other college, MPJEL Oceania, in February. The Federal Court has fined Ms Restar $120,000 and ordered her to pay the legal costs of the Australian Skills Quality Authority, which discovered her scam after a colleague dobbed her in for giving him two fake training certificates for $2000. In a June 3 judgment published yesterday, judge Geoffrey Flick said Ms Restar had co-operated with ASQA, expressed remorse and “wishes to continue to engage in the industry’’.
June 9, 2016
Able Australia Services has won its case involving John Schade. Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra has ruled the dismissal was genuine redundancy.
