A dirty kitchen appliance used to blend and puree food has been blamed as the source of a salmonella outbreak at the Burnside War Memorial Hospital in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs.
September 25, 2015
The Fair Work Commission has approved the UNITINGCARE HEALTH ALLIED HEALTH ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT – 2015-2018.
September 25, 2015
Healthscope Operations Pty Ltd T/A Healthscope has had its HEALTHSCOPE – VICTORIA – HEALTH PROFESSIONALS – ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2015-2019 approved by Fair Work Deputy President Hamilton in Melbourne on 16 September.
September 25, 2015
TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT – extension of time – ss.394, 400, 604 Fair Work Act 2009 – permission to appeal – Full Bench – application for permission to appeal – at first instance Commission refused extension of time to lodge application for unfair dismissal remedy and dismissed application – appellant contended that Commission did not properly consider all exceptional circumstances that attended dismissal – Full Bench not satisfied Commission made errors of fact alleged in notice of appeal – COmmission properly took into account and gave due consideration to all matters raised by appellant – not satisfied it would be in the public interest to grant permission to appeal – permission to appeal refused. Appeal by Ann Robertson against decision of Watson SDP of 17 June 2015 [[2015] FWC 3973] Re: Peninsula Health t/a Frankston Hospital.
September 25, 2015
The Health Services Union is poised to rejoin the Labor Party in NSW, a move that could bolster the waning power of Bill Shorten’s right-wing faction but also embarrass the Labor leader ahead of a federal election. After four years in political exile, the leader of the HSU’s NSW branch will push to re-affiliate with Labor as early as December. NSW is the HSU’s biggest branch.
September 25, 2015
Further charges are to be laid against a woman accused to falsifying her qualifications to work in nursing roles, a South Australian court has heard. Jennifer Anne Reed, 65, is currently facing 20 courts related to allegedly working unregistered as a health professional and a further six counts of deception. She is being prosecuted by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and the Director of Public Prosecutions, who claim she falsified qualifications to work as a registered nurse and director at aged care facilities.
September 25, 2015
The union corruption royal commission is re-examining the actions of disgraced ex-union bosses Kathy Jackson and Craig Thomson. The royal commission is calling for submissions from “affected parties” as part of a probe into the Health Services Union, from which both misappropriated money.
September 25, 2015
The nurse who discovered a dementia patient bloodied in his bed at a Canberra nursing home did not think to check if he was still alive, the ACT Coroner’s Court has heard. Charles McCulloch, 94, was found beaten in his bed a day after he was moved into the high-needs dementia ward at the Jindalee Aged Care Residence in Narrabundah in January 2012.
