NEWS-HR

An application for approval of the St John Ambulance Australia Tasmania Trainers Enterprise Agreement 2015 is to be heard by Fair Work Commissioner Lee.

The Department of Human Services is still wrestling with a ‘faded Starr’ over a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) which has drifted into a second hearing day.

An application for approval of the Arthritis Foundation of South Australia Enterprise Agreement 2015 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be thumbed through by Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Adelaide at 1pm.

Elderly people are being targeted by con artists involved in an elaborate scam. Con artists have preyed on at least one retirement village as part of an elaborate scam targeting the elderly. It’s understood complaints about the scam, which has prompted police investigation, first surfaced more than two months ago. The scam involves a man pitching a bogus story, often about an unpaid electricity bill, over the phone to try to convince a person that there is a fault with their bank debit card.

A nursing home orderly has been suspended for having sex with a patient. The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has upheld the complaint prosecuted by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission – that Mr Watson had engaged in professional misconduct by failing to maintain proper professional boundaries, including having improper sexual contact with a patient. However, in a twist to the case, Mr Watson is now a full-time carer to the patient whom he says he fell in love with at Mayfield Aged Care. They are married and live together in Mt Isa.

The Department of Human Services is being challenged by a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by a faded Starr in Melbourne.

An application for approval of the Back in Motion Health Group Mount Barker Enterprise Agreement 2015 (s.185 – application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is before Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne,

The Department of Human Services is facing a s.372 (application to deal with other contravention disputes) from a member of the Gunston family.