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The Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union-New South Wales and ACT (Services) Branch & National Disability Services has made a s.576(2)(aa) (Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) application before Fair Work Deputy President Booth in Sydney.

Michael Spooner and Dr Gary W. Pace have been appointed non-executive Chairman and non-executive Director respectively of Simavita.

An application for approval of the Mater Health Services Operational Employees’ Enterprise Agreement 2014 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be heard by Fair Work Commissioner Roe in his Melbourne chambers.

A Palmerston North woman used her employment at a retirement home to steal a resident’s rings, which she sold for less than 10 per cent of their value. Niki Kiriona-Kahukoti no longer works at Abbeyfield House Retirement Home in Palmerston North, after her theft was discovered. The 43-year-old pleaded guilty in the Palmerston North District Court on Thursday to burglary, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.

Richmond Fellowship ACT Inc. is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by ex-staff member Maloney.

An application for approval of the Mobility Lifts (Vic)/ETU/AMWU/Construction & Service Employees 2014-2018 Enterprise Agreement (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be reviewed by Fair Work Commissioner Roe in Melbourne.

A community nurse has allegedly been punched and kicked repeatedly while on the ground while responding to a house call in the remote Northern Territory community of Wadeye.

A former Child, Youth and Family caregiver and alternative medicine practitioner has been found guilty on 52 charges of sexual abuse against eight teenagers in his care. It took a jury of six women and six men 16 hours of deliberating to find Frank Russell Walmsley guilty of most of the charges against him.