TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT – discontinuance – s.394 Fair Work Act 2009 – application for unfair dismissal remedy – application listed for hearing as matter not resolved at conciliation – prior to hearing, applicant’s representative advised Commission that matter had settled and discontinuance would follow –applicant advised to wait until settlement money received before filing discontinuance – prior to receiving settlement monies applicant’s representative filed notice of discontinuance – applicant wrote to Commission requesting a hearing – Commission to determine if it has power to set aside discontinuance – applicant submitted that representative not instructed to file discontinuance – Narayan considered – Commission does not have power to set aside discontinuance [AB v Tabcorp Holdings Limited] – such application would need to be made to a Court – application dismissed. Hatton v Northern Beaches Community Services Limited
May 5, 2016
Link Medical Products Pty Ltd is debating a s.372 (application to deal with other contravention disputes) launched by a staff member (Shortis).
May 5, 2016
Gayle Anderson returned to her Cranbrook gated retirement village from a 10-month holiday with her husband Bill to find their 2007 Mazda BT-50 ute had been stolen from the driveway of their Townsville unit.
May 5, 2016
Centacare Catholic Family Services is facing a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy).
May 5, 2016
Federal parliament has found former Labor MP Craig Thomson in contempt for lying to the House of Representatives four years ago. The privileges committee on Wednesday recommended Mr Thomson be reprimanded for a statement about Health Services Union funding on May 21, 2012 that contained “factually incorrect material”. Labor and the coalition voted to find Mr Thomson in contempt, with Labor MP Anna Burke putting on the record the parliament be above politics.
May 5, 2016
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation (s.437 – application for a protected action ballot order) is being heard by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb.
May 5, 2016
A second nurse has told an inquest into a psychiatric patient’s suicide at the Royal Adelaide Hospital that he did not make a comprehensive ward check before the patient was found unconscious and rushed to intensive care. He died the following day.
May 5, 2016
An application for approval of the Australian Red Cross Blood-Service Victorian Medical Officers and Specialists Enterprise Agreement 2015 (s.185 – application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Court 3 & Conference Room B – Level 6 in Melbourne.
