High-tech watches worn by Victorian mental health staff could prevent and reduce violence against them while they are working out in the community. Worn on the wrist, the 3G Safety Watch allows staff managing a crisis to quickly notify emergency services of their exact location via a 24-hour security monitoring centre. The watches also have an `Amber Alert’ function, which a doctor, nurse or paramedic can use to notify the monitoring centre that they are entering a risky environment.
February 3, 2016
Logan police are investigating a gunshot fired into an aged care facility last night. A bullet hole was found today in a window on the bottom floor of the Bethania facility, along with damage to a curtain, wardrobe, television and plasterboard wall. Residents had reported hearing a loud bang at the three-level Clarendon St building about 9.30 last night. Police said a 92-year-old male resident, who was asleep in the room at the time of the shot, was not injured.
February 3, 2016
Tasmanian doctors have threatened industrial action over a Government move to appeal against a recent industrial decision it says will divert “precious” public health dollars. The State Government is challenging the Tasmanian Industrial Commission’s determination on the medical practitioners public sector award. It is appealing against the inclusion of a scheme which allows salaried doctors to be paid for treating private patients in public hospitals. Health Minister Michael Ferguson said the decision could result in precious public health dollars diverted to a 35 per cent salary loading for salaried doctors.
February 3, 2016
Top bureaucrats at the giant Department of Human Services have gone missing from its negotiating team as the 35,000 public servants who work there prepare for another vote on a wage proposal. Union delegates have been left scratching their heads at the bewildering turnover in the senior management executives who have come and gone from the department’s bargaining team during the course of the lengthy wage dispute. A ballot will start on Friday with the department’s public servants to have their say on a new wage offer after the last “better than nothing” proposal was crushed in a landslide 83 per cent “no” vote in October.
February 3, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has ratified the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn CatholicCare Canberra & Goulburn Enterprise Agreement (CatholicCare Canberra & Goulburn) 2015-2017.
February 3, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has rubber-stamped the UnitingCare Community Transport and Distribution Enterprise Agreement 2015
February 3, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has ratified the Department of Health Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019
February 3, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has given its imprimatur to the Boandik Lodge Inc Nursing Employees & ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2016
