A nurse, brutally assaulted by a mental health patient, is claiming more than $600,000 in damages from Gold Coast Health. Paul Harrison, 63, has filed the claim in the Southport District Court over the 2013 assault where he was attacked from behind while working on a whiteboard and then continually attacked after he was on the ground, leaving him significantly impaired.
March 7, 2016
An application by Primary Care Gold Coast Limited (s.222 – application for approval of a termination of an enterprise agreement) will be reviewed by Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his Chambers in Brisbane.
March 7, 2016
Lifestyle Solutions (Aust) Ltd has a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) on its hands at the instigation of staff member Pittman.
March 7, 2016
The Tharawal Local Aboriginal Land Council is facing a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an alleged wayward ex-staffer (Ely).
March 4, 2016
A meals on Wheels employee has escaped a prison sentence after she admitted taking almost $150,000 of elderly customers’ dinner money to put through the pokies. Marlene Barry, 72, was sentenced to at least nine months home detention by Magistrate Alison Viney who said her actions “quite rightly” caused “community outrage.” Barry pleaded guilty to stealing $148,000 from Meals on Wheels on the Northern Beaches over seven years while working as a clients account officer.
March 4, 2016
It will be an offence for hospital workers to inappropriately access or use patient information, under laws proposed by the Opposition in response to revelations clinicians have improperly accessed SA Health records. It is currently only an offence to disclose such personal information.
March 4, 2016
Fair Work Commission (FWC) vice-president Michael Lawler has resigned, ending a protracted legal stand-off. “Mr Lawler’s resignation from the Fair Work Commission commences with immediate effect.” Mr Lawler’s resignation came just 24 hours before he was due to respond to a report by former Federal Court Judge Peter Heeley into his conduct. That report was commissioned after Mr Lawler took sick leave for more than nine months, on his full $430,000 salary. During that time he helped his partner, former Health Services Union official Kathy Jackson, fight a Federal Court ruling that she misappropriated $1.4 million of union funds. In October, commission president Iain Ross told a Senate hearing he had approved 215 days of sick leave for Mr Lawler on the basis that he was medically unfit to perform his duties.
March 4, 2016
The man found dead at the home of Kathy Jackson is believed to have been a dinner guest of the ex-union boss. Police are currently investigating the death of the man, believed to be 45-year-old Shaun Fisher, a friend of Ms Jackson and her partner Michael Lawler.
