Pat Thomas House Inc is being challenged by a s.365 (application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) lodged by Van Helfteren.
January 28, 2016
Calvary Health Care Adelaide Limited is defending a s.394 (unfair dismissal claim) from an ex-staff member (Hansen) in Adelaide.
January 27, 2016
An application for approval of the Department of Health Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019 will be considered by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne.
January 27, 2016
The Department of Health and Human Services has been served with a s.394 (unfair dismissal claim) by a Melbourne-based bureaucrat (Lombardo).
January 27, 2016
A care worker who plied a teenager with ice before sexually abusing him multiple times could be free from prison in less than three years. County Court Judge Richard Maidment said Department of Human Services worker Serge Ranwala, 50, had repeatedly exploited the trust of his 19-year-old victim. Sri Lankan-born Ranwala was found guilty last year of two counts of committing an indecent act with a person having a cognitive impairment while a worker at a DHS facility; and nine counts of sexual penetration.
January 27, 2016
An elderly man accused of shooting a retirement strata manager during a body corporate meeting allegedly told a resident the previous day not to attend saying, “I prefer no females to be there because I don’t know what is going to happen,” a district court heard. Romanian immigrant Ille Istudor was 85 when he is accused of shooting strata manager Stephen Smith through the neck with a shortened .22 calibre rifle in front of horrified residents during a meeting at their Lakemba unit block on April 24, 2014. Downing District Court Judge Andrew Haesler found that Istudor was not mentally fit to enter a plea to a charge of shooting with intent to murder or with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
January 27, 2016
A country Victorian GP has been banned from providing end-of-life care following investigations into the death of at least one patient. Nagambie doctor Alan Kosky has had the ban placed on him by a medical board convened by federal regulator the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency. The action comes amid an on-going investigation into Dr Kosky’s practices in response to complaints lodged with the agency.
January 27, 2016
Eastern Health has been served with a s.365 (application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) by a staff member (Kanyua).
