An application for approval of the Bethsalem Care Nursing Employees (Aged Care) & ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2015 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be reviewed by Fair Work Commissioner Roe in Sydney.
March 18, 2016
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (s.236 – Application for a majority support determination) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner McKenna in Sydney.
March 18, 2016
Nurses have launched a powerful new advertising campaign targeting the protection of penalty rates for staff, following fears they could be cut in the future. The personalised plea from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation uses a real-life registered nurse, known only as “Julie”, who tells her story in a video about the impact shift work has on nurses, midwives and their families. It comes on the back of a Productivity Commission report commissioned by the Federal Government which recommended penalty rates for the hospitality and retail sectors could be cut.
March 18, 2016
Don’t be surprised to learn that Australian Paramedics Association of Victoria v Ambulance Victoria and United Voice v Ambulance Victoria are both now in their fifth hearing day before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
March 18, 2016
Former Labor MP Craig Thomson faces a reprimand but no other penalty over a 2012 speech in which he was accused of deliberately misleading parliament. The parliament’s privileges committee on Thursday released its report into the matter after a two-year inquiry into the former Health Services Union secretary. “The committee considers that an appropriate penalty would be for the House to reprimand Mr Thomson for his conduct,” committee chairman Russell Broadbent told parliament. The committee acknowledged Mr Thomson’s “difficult personal situation” since the allegations about him first arose in the context of the HSU exit audit in 2007-8 and led to a series of investigations, reports and court cases. “In recommending punishment, the committee considers these difficulties to be a mitigating factor in what it now recommends,” the report said, rejecting a finding of contempt which could have involved a fine or jail. In a response to the report, Mr Thomson offered an apology “for pointing out that Michael Williamson, Kathy Jackson and her partner Mr Lawler, and Marco Bolano were all likely to be crooks”.
March 18, 2016
Options Disability Support is being challenged by an ex-staffer (Prowse) via a s.394 unfair dismissal claim.
March 18, 2016
An industrial relations battle is brewing as unions, business groups and people who will benefit from the $22 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme meet to thrash out ways “serious litigation” can be avoided while delivering a service revolution. The Fair Work Commission will hold meetings this month and next with the Health Services Union, United Voice, the Australian Services Union and the peak provider body National Disability Services to discuss “innovative employment solutions” around the NDIS to avoid “serious litigation” over the carers award.
March 18, 2016
Danielle McCulloch has been unable to convince the NSW Workers Compensation Commission to re-open her claim for a wrist injury sustained whilst attempting to change an obese resident of St Hedwig Village in his bed.
