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Southern Cross Care (WA) Inc. is fighting a s,394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) notice lodged by an ex-staffer (Broun-Batty).

The Health Services Union and the Department of Health and Human Services meet at high noon over a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) notice.

An application by Primary Care Gold Coast Limited (s.222 – Application for approval of a termination of an enterprise agreement) will be perused by Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his chambers in Brisbane.

An application by North and West Remote Health Limited (s.318 – Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and transferring employees) will be decided by Fair Work Commissioner Booth in Brisbane.

Life Without Barriers wants a life without Ms Carrick (s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy).

Globus Medical Australia Pty Ltd is being asked to deal with a s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy (Graham).

A nurse who admitted to falsifying employment references for positions overseas has been fined and censured. Conrado Santos, applied for two positions in Queensland last year and successfully asked two line managers at Waikato Hospital to provide written references. Mr Santos altered their written words and set up fake email accounts purporting to belong to his two managers, from which he sent his polished-up versions. He also created a false email account for one of the perspective employers and told the two line managers to email their references there. The email accounts were created from Hotmail and Outlook accounts. Mr Santos embellished the original references and sent them on. He admitted four charges of professional misconduct at a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal hearing in Wellington in November last year.

After missing out on the top job at National Australia Bank, Craig Drummond, the incoming boss of Medibank Private, is set to receive a handy pay rise, even as the company grapples with mounting pressure to cut its own costs and rein in rising charges from health care providers. Medibank Private announced Mr Drummond would take up the role on July 4, replacing outgoing chief executive George Savvides. Mr Savvides took home $2 million in the year to June 2015, with a base salary of $1 million topped up by $303,000 of short-term incentives, $602,147 of performance rights, and other sundry entitlements.