Pauline Lockett, Taranaki DHB chair, has announced the resignation of Tony Foulkes after 12 years as chief executive of Taranaki District Health Board.
February 19, 2016
Disability Respite and Accommodation provider, Nardy House, has won its application to be allowed to appeal against a previous Fair Work Commission ruling which upheld the unfair dismissal application of an ex-staffer (John Perry). The issue will turn on an interpretation of the dichotomy between casual and part-time employees.
February 19, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has stamped the Healthscope Queensland Clerical Services Employee Agreement 2015-2019.
February 19, 2016
A Victorian health department bureaucrat has declined to say how much staff were paid for the Easter Sunday public holiday last financial year. Department of Health and Human Services deputy secretary Lance Wallace told a Victorian parliamentary accounts and estimates committee hearing on Thursday that he was “not authorised” to give details on the costs the Easter Sunday public holiday cost health services in 2014-2015.
February 19, 2016
Melbourne Pathology is dealing with a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute in relation to flexible working arrangements) lodged by a staff member (Matthiesson).
February 19, 2016
One West Australian public servant spent about $40 million more than the employee was delegated to on a mismanaged IT contract, according to the state’s director general of health. A day after a damning auditor-general’s report into WA health’s centralised computing services contract was handed down, director general David Russell-Weisz admitted a failure of governance and contract management had occurred within his department.
February 19, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has approved the Autism Queensland Limited Employee Collective Agreement 2015.
February 19, 2016
Karingal Inc is back in the Fair Work Commission dealing with the s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staffer (Carroll).
