NEWS-HR

Euroa Health Inc. and the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation and the Health Services Union Nurses Collective Agreement 2015 has been given the thumbs up by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne on September 15.

An elderly Auckland man who was missing for five days has died in hospital. Mr Davies went missing from a care facility in Albany. He was found on a golf course five days later. During the five days he was missing, he did not have food, care or medication.

Police are searching for a 79-year-old Warwick man who they believe to be missing from the Oak Tree retirement village in Warwick.

Mid Coast Communities Inc is facing an s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) from an ex-employee (Dunworth).

St John of God Health Care is facing an s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) lodged by the Health Services Union in Melbourne.

The Department of Human Services is dealing with an s.372 (application to deal with other contravention disputes) lodged by a disaffected ex-staffer (Maude).

Minda Incorporated has lodged an s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) with the Fair Work Commission. The United Voice union dispute will be heard by Commissioner Cambridge.

Proposed changes to introduce portable long service leave entitlements for employees in the aged care industry are taking too long, according to their union. After more than three years, the ACT Government is still to deliver. The union said it met with the Government in March this year to discuss the required legislation.