NEWS-HR

An application for approval of the Back in Motion Health Group Semaphore Enterprise Agreement 2015 (s.185 – application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne.

Options Disability Support has allegedly frog-marched an employee (Prowse) and House with No Steps has allegedly pulled the rug from under a staffer (Kamanda). Both are pleading their respective cases before Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle.

The Fair Work Commission has formally ratified the Southern Cross Care (WA) Inc. Residential Care Enterprise Agreement 2015.

Havilah Hostel Inc. is seeking, under section 217 of the Fair Work Act 2009, to vary the Havilah Hostel Inc., ANMF and HSU Enterprise Agreement 2014 to remove an ambiguity. The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Association (ANMF) and the Health Services Union of Australia advised the Fair Work Commission that they do not object to the application.

The Fair Work Commission has rubber-stamped the Moran Australia (Residential Aged Care) Pty Limited NSW Enterprise Agreement 2015.

Fair Work Commissioner Cribb has granted a s.318 (application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and transferring employees) made by Uniting Church Homes T/A Juniper. Juniper sought an order that the D & R Community Services Pty Ltd Agreement 2009 Employee Collective Workplace Agreement does not cover Juniper, being the new employer, or the transferring employees who will perform, or are likely to perform, the transferring work for Juniper.

The Fair Work Commission has given its imprimatur to the YCH Enterprise Bargaining Agreement – Housing and Administrative Staff 2015-2018.

A s.225 (application for termination of an enterprise agreement after its nominal expiry date) by Community Living Australia has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Adelaide.