The Government’s insistence on sticking to its 2 per cent wages policy in a new paramedics pay deal will only cost taxpayers more, Tasmania’s public sector union claims. A long-running and bitter dispute between the Government and ambulance workers appears to be over, with the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) claiming a deal for an 8 per cent rise over fours years was now on the table.
July 14, 2016
An application by Health Services Union (s.240 – application to deal with a bargaining dispute) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E – Level 6 in Melbourne at 1pm.
July 14, 2016
The Health Services Union and Headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation Ltd are doing the rounds via a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute).
July 14, 2016
The Health Services Union and the Department of Health and Human Services are debating a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E – Level 6 in Melbourne.
July 14, 2016
Australia’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Baggoley has announced his retirement after more than five years in the role.
July 13, 2016
Calvary Health Care Adelaide has been told an earlier tribunal win over Hansen is now subject to a s.604 (Appeal of decisions) before the Fair Work Full Bench.
July 13, 2016
Jacaranda Housing is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) served by an ex-staff member (Seidel).
July 13, 2016
A registered nurse has been reprimanded and banned for 12 months over a violent altercation with a psychiatric patient at Joondalup Health Campus in northern Perth. Brian Roha Smith, who had been a mental health nurse for 30 years, held the 29-year-old patient around the neck and poked him in the eye after the two men fell to the ground in a room of the Mental Health Unit in April 2014. The incident was observed by other staff and the Nursing and Midwifery Board took Mr Smith to the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) where he admitted he had engaged in “professional misconduct”.
