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The Health Services Union is also harrumping with North East North East Health Wangaratta. Is there any organisation in Vicoria with which it is not in dispute?

St Vincents Hospital (Melbourne) Limited has fired a staff member (Parsons) who now wants salvation via a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) hearing before Commissioner Cribb in Fair Work in Victoria.

The application for approval of the Churches of Christ in Queensland – Churches of Christ Care Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2015 is to be heard today by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Melbourne.

St George Aged Care Centre has to face a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) launched against it by a staff cluster (Taungakava and Perera and Others).

The Fair Work Commission has ratified the s.185 (application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) lodged by Clayton Church Homes Inc.

WorkCover (Adelaide Community Health Care Alliance Inc) has failed to overturn a personal injury decision involving Iqbal Tivey. WorkCover complained that a decision of a Fair Work Deputy President that there was a casual connection between a back injury and spinal infection involved an error of law due to a failure to provide adequate reasons for the decision. But despite there being a number of inadequacies and gaps in the reasoning, having regard to the reasons as a whole and the inferences able to be drawn from them, there was no miscarriage of justice, said the Tribunal.

The Fair Work Commission has ratified a s.217 (enterprise agreement) application lodged by Healthscope Operations Pty Ltd T/A Healthscope.

More than 80 per cent of nurses would consider abandoning their jobs if penalty rates were stripped from them, with many citing the Christmas period as the worst time to work, a nationwide survey reveals. The results from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation survey will be included in their forthcoming report on the economic and health impacts of cutting penalty rates.