Next Residential Pty Ltd is also in the same s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) industrial boat (Gardiner) and facing the same determining commissioner (O’Callaghan).
February 16, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has finally approved the Cabrini Acute Care Nurses and Midwives Agreement 2015.
February 16, 2016
The application for approval of the Tismor Health & Wellness Enterprise Agreement 2015-2017 will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne.
February 16, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has ratified the St Vincent’s Health Australia (Private Hospitals) and QNU Nursing Enterprise Agreement 2015-2018.
February 15, 2016
A nurse accused of murdering two patients at a Ballina nursing home will face a trial lasting six to eight weeks in Lismore. Megan Jean Haines, 47, appeared in Sydney Supreme Court via video-link from Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre. She is charged with killing Isobella Spencer, 77, and Marie Darragh, 82, by injecting them with fatal doses of insulin at the St Andrew’s Village nursing home in Ballina. Both women had advanced care directives against resuscitation and died in Ballina District Hospital after being found unconscious in their beds on May 10, 2014. Ms Haines was arrested almost a month later in Seaspray, Victoria, and extradited to New South Wales. NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Johnson heard there would be “a lot of nurses and people called in relation to the management of the hospital” for the defence when the case finally went to trial. Ms Haines’s scheduled arraignment was postponed until May 6, before a trial beginning on October 10 in Lismore.
February 15, 2016
Public servants in the Federal Government’s biggest department have again emphatically rejected a wage deal. About 23,000 Department of Human Services workers voted, with 79.5 to 80.5 per cent voting to reject a wage deal that offered pay rises of 2 per cent, on average, over three years.
February 15, 2016
A nurse is accused of deliberately making her daughter ill by giving her repeated doses of mind-altering medication. The mother is under police investigation for allegedly administering anti-psychotic drugs to the young girl over two months.
February 15, 2016
An application for approval of the Sutherland Heart Clinic Enterprise Agreement 2015-2017 will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Sydney.
