A staffer (Giallussi) has the hump with Independent Community Living Australia Limited.
January 15, 2016
Moonta Health and Aged Care Service Inc is being cross-examined by the Fair Work Commission over its staff (Gresty) dispatch procedures.
January 14, 2016
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.
January 14, 2016
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.
January 14, 2016
Life Without Barriers is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) filed in the Fair Work Commission by an ex-employee (Carrier).
January 13, 2016
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.
January 13, 2016
Fair Work Commission vice-president Michael Lawler will no longer handle cases involving government employment, amid an ongoing federal government inquiry into his behaviour. The independent inquiry headed by retired Federal Court judge Peter Heerey QC could see Mr Lawler removed from office after he took more than nine months of sick leave while supporting his partner Kathy Jackson in legal battles against the Health Services Union. Changes to members appointed to hear cases in specific Fair Work panels — or industry sectors — are overseen by Fair Work president Iain Ross. After the retirement of several members this year, a number of panel changes have been made. Mr Lawler, who has a salary of $435,000, was originally blocked from any further dealings with the health industry in late 2008 after complaints to then president of the commission from senior health industry figures who had become aware of his relationship with Ms Jackson. The Fair Work panel reshuffle is academic for the time being insofar as Mr Lawler is concerned, as he has resumed sick leave. There has been no indication of when or if he will return to work.
January 13, 2016
The long-serving boss of a Borroloola-based Aboriginal corporation received more than $115,000 in overtime payments last financial year in addition to her salary, an ORIC audit has found. The Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporation audit also found Alison Doyle paid more than $47,000 in overtime payments to her daughter, who worked as the corporation’s HR manager until October this year. The payments to Ms Doyle and her daughter were the equivalent of 235 days and accounted for 93 per cent of all Mabunji Aboriginal Resources Indigenous Corporation’s Time Off In Lieu payments for the year to June 30, ORIC says.
