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.
December 16, 2015
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).
December 15, 2015
The Fair Work Commission has ratified the s.185 (application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) lodged by Clayton Church Homes Inc.
December 15, 2015
WorkCover (Adelaide Community Health Care Alliance Inc) has failed to overturn a personal injury decision involving Iqbal Tivey. WorkCover complained that a decision of a Fair Work Deputy President that there was a casual connection between a back injury and spinal infection involved an error of law due to a failure to provide adequate reasons for the decision. But despite there being a number of inadequacies and gaps in the reasoning, having regard to the reasons as a whole and the inferences able to be drawn from them, there was no miscarriage of justice, said the Tribunal.
December 15, 2015
The Fair Work Commission has ratified a s.217 (enterprise agreement) application lodged by Healthscope Operations Pty Ltd T/A Healthscope.
December 15, 2015
More than 80 per cent of nurses would consider abandoning their jobs if penalty rates were stripped from them, with many citing the Christmas period as the worst time to work, a nationwide survey reveals. The results from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation survey will be included in their forthcoming report on the economic and health impacts of cutting penalty rates.
December 15, 2015
A meeting convened at Parliament House of all Labor staff, where Bronwyn Taylor, Chief of Staff to Deputy Leader Tanya Plibersek, spoke about a new addition to Bill Shorten’s office – one Matt Burke – who would assist with Labor’s federal election campaign. A few of those advisers with long memories were rather surprised that the leader’s office would employ Burke, a former associate of dodgy Health Services Union Secretary turned Labor MP Craig Thomson. Thomson employed Burke at the HSU without the authorisation of the union’s National Executive. Then Burke resigned in April 2007 to run Thomson’s campaign as Labor candidate for the federal seat of Dobell. Despite his resignation, Burke continued to use his HSU-issued credit card for the rest of the year, racking up $6700 in the lead-up to the November election. Thomson also paid Burke’s car insurance on his HSU credit card in November, seven months after Burke had left the union. All of these revelations are contained in Fair Work Australia’s investigation into the HSU’s national office following allegations of financial impropriety by Thomson and National President Michael Williamson, who is serving a five-year prison sentence. The report was compiled by Fair Work Australia investigator Terry Nassios and was released in March 2012.
December 15, 2015
The Australian Workers’ Union and the Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (Q) – St Stephens Hospital Maryborough and Hervey Bay will ‘duke’ it out before Fair Work Commissioner Simpson at 11am today.
