A nurse at a retirement village has been censured and ordered to pay $10,000 in legal costs after stealing food, including sweet and sour fish, which was meant for patients.
February 23, 2016
Payroll mistakes are undermining morale among Wellington’s health workers, advocates say. Wellington health workers, including doctors and nurses, have been missing out on allowances, overtime and holiday pay because of a payroll system described as “diabolical”. “If we made those kind of mistakes in our roles that payroll are making, patients would die,” one unnamed nurse at Capital & Coast District Health Board said.
February 23, 2016
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) lodged by a staffer (Sutton).
February 23, 2016
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne has been called to deal with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) by an ex-employee (Steele).
February 23, 2016
The CPSU (Community and Public Sector Union) and the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia Central Operations will face off over a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Hampton.
February 23, 2016
An application by Community Support Incorporated (s.222 – Application for approval of a termination of an enterprise agreement) will be heard by Fair Work Commissioner Hampton in Adelaide.
February 23, 2016
Mater Misericordiae Health services Brisbane Limited will deal with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) instigated by an unhappy ex-staff member (Kuether).
February 22, 2016
Two former Health Department public servants embroiled in findings of massive waste and mismanagement will escape penalty, while one now works for a private contractor on the new Perth Children’s Hospital, it has been revealed.
