An application for approval of the MHA Care Enterprise Agreement 2015 – 2019 will be processed by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
December 11, 2015
John Wesley Cox has been unable to convince the NSW Workers Compensation Commission to order UnitingCare Ministries to pay for an injury allegedly sustained to his right knee when he slipped on carpet.
December 11, 2015
The Salvation Army has been unable to persuade the NSW Workers Compensation Commission to resile from its previous medical assessment of Christine Abbey.
December 10, 2015
The NSW Workers Compensation Commission has ordered Allity Management Services Pty Ltd to pay for all Cheryle Murphy’s surgical procedures. Cheryle Murphy was employed at the Coastal Waters Aged Care Facility at Worrowing Heights, NSW for several years. Allity took over the management of the facility in 2014. On 29 June 2014 Ms Murphy slipped on wet tiles in the kitchen and injured her right knee, hip, hand and shoulder. She also hit her head on the right side. Liability was initially accepted by Allity and Ms Murphy underwent surgery to her right knee. Her treating orthopaedic surgeon, Dr D Cossetto, also recommended surgery to her right shoulder. Allity’s insurer denied liability for that surgery. Dr Cossetto undertook right shoulder surgery on 8 December 2014 and Ms Murphy has subsequently returned to work with Allity. The issue between the parties is whether the shoulder surgery was reasonably necessary medical treatment as a result of the injury on 29 June 2014. The claim for medical expenses relating to the shoulder surgery was the subject of a previous decision by a CCommission arbitrator and an appeal. The previous decision turned on the relevance of a non-work related injury to Ms Murphy’s right shoulder as a result of a fall in a supermarket in mid-November 2014.
December 10, 2015
Quakers Hill Nursing Home murderer Roger Dean loses appeal against 11 life sentences.
December 10, 2015
The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association and Australian Hospital Administration Pty Limited are in a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) armwrestle before Fair Work Deputy President Booth in Sydney.
December 10, 2015
Fair Work Vice President Michael Lawler pressed the commission to pay for a last-minute business-class flight to New York, enabling him to travel with his girlfriend Kathy Jackson on one of her trips paid for with funds rorted from the Health Services Union. Fair Work was given three days’ notice to book the one-way ticket — costing upwards of $6000 — in July 2011. Mr Lawler told his boss — then Fair Work President Geoff Giudice — that he planned to attend an industrial relations conference in the US. Mr Lawler’s Qantas flight from Melbourne to New York on July 22 matches travel on the same day taken by Ms Jackson, according to Federal Court documents subpoenaed from Qantas.
December 10, 2015
An application for approval of the Back in Motion Health Group Hobart on Murray Enterprise Agreement 2015 will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Lee today.
