NEWS-HR

The Department of Health and Human Services has tossed a staffer on the scrapheap (Haddon) and now faces a Fair Work Commission inquisition.

Former federal MP Craig Thomson has been ordered to pay more than $458,000 for misusing funds during his time as head of the scandal-plagued Health Services Union. The Federal Court ordered Thomson pay $80,050 to the Fair Work Commission over the spending of union funds for personal use between 2003 and 2007, including on several visits to brothels. Justice Christopher Jessup also ordered he pay the HSU $231,243 in compensation and $146,937 in interest. Judge Jessup said Thomson, who did not appear at the hearing, had at no stage shown any contrition or appreciation of the seriousness of the matters against him.

The Health Services Union is having an industrial rumble with the Latrobe Regional Hospital

Douttagalla has given an employee (Araya) the bullet only to cop s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) crossfire.

The Health Services Union is also harrumping with North East North East Health Wangaratta. Is there any organisation in Vicoria with which it is not in dispute?

St Vincents Hospital (Melbourne) Limited has fired a staff member (Parsons) who now wants salvation via a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) hearing before Commissioner Cribb in Fair Work in Victoria.

The application for approval of the Churches of Christ in Queensland – Churches of Christ Care Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2015 is to be heard today by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Melbourne.

St George Aged Care Centre has to face a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) launched against it by a staff cluster (Taungakava and Perera and Others).