NEWS-HR

An application for approval of the Back in Motion Health Group Sydenham Enterprise Agreement 2015 is to be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne.

An application for approval of the Menzies School of Health Research Enterprise Agreement 2015 will be determined by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne.

A staffer (Giallussi) has the hump with Independent Community Living Australia Limited.

Moonta Health and Aged Care Service Inc is being cross-examined by the Fair Work Commission over its staff (Gresty) dispatch procedures.

The scandal-ridden Heath Services Union is seeking to return to the Labor fold, promising it has reformed itself. HSU NSW secretary Gerard Hayes said it had taken more than three years of hard work to put union’s troubles behind it.

Nurses are concerned staffing ratios for the Riverina’s new Rural Referral Hospital in Wagga Wagga are inadequate, and are appealing to residents not to add to the pressure. About 100 nurses met with management yesterday to voice concerns over safety and staffing ratios at the hospital, which opens on Monday.

Life Without Barriers is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) filed in the Fair Work Commission by an ex-employee (Carrier).

Simvata says its Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer, Tom Howitt, has resigned. The search for a replacement has commenced, and in the interim, Ms Peta Jurd, the Company’s Chief Commercial Officer, will oversee the finance and accounting functions of the Company.