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.
June 9, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has approved the Aged Care Deloraine Inc Enterprise Agreement 2015.
June 9, 2016
Robin Hansen has failed to prove that she was unfairly dismissed from Calvary Health Care Adelaide Limited.
June 9, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has endorsed the Mount Hospital (Professional, Clerical, Technical Employees) Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020.
