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Healthe Care Australia Pty Ltd is challenging an s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) from an ex-employee (Tambyah).

An application for approval of the Juniper Registered Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2015 is before Fair Work Commisioner Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra.

An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation for an s.238 (application for a scope order) is being heard in Melbourne by Deputy President Hamilton.

Benetas, a not-for-profit aged care provider, has announced it will pay super contributions on its workers’ parental paid leave. ‘I don’t think that many employers are necessarily even aware that super isn’t being paid on parental leave,’ Benetas’ general manager for people development Ellen Flint said.

A light-fingered retirement village worker has been caught in the act by a hidden-camera sting. Cameras were installed in flats at the Poynton Retirement Village in Takapuna after more than 4000 dollars went missing. A 51 year-old village worker, Denise Neal, was caught snooping around, opening bags and checking people’s diaries. The covert cameras also caught her putting on blue plastic gloves while she went through rooms. She’s been sentenced to home detention and ordered to have therapy for a gambling problem.

The Fair Work Commission has launched proceedings in the Federal Court against the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and its WA branch secretary over alleged financial reporting issues.

A 17-year-old girl may still be alive today if medical staff had been less complacent and properly used a health alert system, a Queensland coroner has ruled.

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has approved The Bethanie Group Inc Enrolled Nurses, Care Workers and Support Services Enterprise Agreement 2015, the Transport Friendly Society Ltd (Trading as Park Hill Gardens Aged Care), ANMF and HSU Enterprise Agreement 2014 and has cancelled the Extended Care Industry Industrial Secretariat.