NEWS-HR

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.

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.

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.

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Kaizen Hospitals (Essendon) Pty Ltd/Kaizen Hospitals (Mount District) Pty Ltd are in a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) armwrestle before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.

The Health Services Union is in pursuit of Austin Health with a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb.

Monash Health is alleged to have ‘upset’ a team member (Thomas).

The Australian Paramedics Association of Victoria and Ambulance Victoria are still not seeing ‘eye to eye’.

An application for approval of the AMA & Cohealth Medical Practitioners Single Enterprise Agreement 2015-2019 is being entertained by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb.