NEWS-HR

An application for the approval of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019 (s.185 – application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be analysed by Fair Work Commissioner Lee.

A care staff member (Giallussi) claims Independent Community Living Australia Limited and Harvey and Others are in breach of their collective employment obligations, and Fair Work Commissioner McKenna has been called upon to adjudicate the assertion today.

St George Aged Care Centre in Sydney has a staff posse (Taungakava, Perera and Others) alleging ‘nothing is right’ in their collective eyes.

Care South is being asked to defend a s.372 dispute assertion being pursued by an aggrieved staff member (Petrolo).

Cedar Place Aged Care Facility Limited is defending a s.739 dispute triggered by a staff member (O’Brien).

Ramsay Health Care Australia has a staff member (Vos) who has triggered a s.739 dispute application which will be heard by the Fair Work Commission at 2.15pm today.

The executive director of the Royal Melbourne Hospital has been appointed the chief executive officer of the Tasmanian Health Service. Psychiatrist David Alcorn will replace interim CEO Dr Anne Brand from February 1.

Staff at a Hobart nursing home where an 85-year-old woman died were so busy on the night that they could only glance at residents to check them, a coronial inquest has heard. Barbara Westcott, 85, died on March 31, 2012 at the Vaucluse Gardens Aged Care facility. She was found lying face down with her head and neck stuck between her mattress and bed pole, with her knees on the floor.