NEWS-HR

The Fair Work Commission has finally ratified the Lifeline Tasmania Employee Enterprise Agreement 2015.

Disability advocates are calling on the Turnbull government to use the vacancy created by the resignation of Tim Wilson at the Human Rights Commission to reappoint a full-time disability commissioner.

The Health Services Union and Eastern Health are debating a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.

An application by Health Services Union (s.240 – application to deal with a bargaining dispute) will be heard by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb at noon.

NZ health staff are due about $450 million in holidays and many have more than four weeks of leave owing. Leave owed to staff has increased according to official figures and comes at a time when some district health boards say they will meet savings targets through not filing vacancies.

Bosses of the WA Health Department were grilled for two hours last night by more than 40 seniors doctors concerned about the state’s health crisis. The emergency meeting of heads of departments from across the South Metropolitan Health Service heard from the Director General of Health David Russell-Weisz and the SMHS Acting Chief Executive Robyn Lawrence. The meeting was held at Fiona Stanley Hospital.

UnitingCare Community is facing a s.372 (application to deal with other contravention disputes) lobbed by a staff member (Collins).

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,