NEWS-HR

The Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union and Songbird Homes have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) on foot before Deputy President Saunders at Level 3, 237 Wharf Road, Newcastle.

CASPA Services Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) today before Commissioner Hunt in chambers in Brisbane (Turner).

The United Workers’ Union & National Disability Services and Others have a s.576(2)(Aa) – Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) to be considered by Deputy President Booth (bu telephone) in Sydney at 9.30am.

A drug-addled man who stabbed a nurse at Royal Perth Hospital in the neck with a makeshift blade he had fashioned out of two scalpels stolen from a storage cupboard has been jailed for four years. Justin Trent Narrier, 31, had been taken to the hospital by police after an earlier incident, but was not under arrest, when he attacked experienced registered nurse Jane Moran during her night shift on May 12 last year. In a victim impact statement read by District Court Judge Amanda Burrows today, it was revealed the nurse had been left traumatised by the attack, and the “special place” she had worked for more than 40 years was now “forever tainted”.

Monash Health is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) claim before Deputy President Masson (by telephone) in Melbourne (Payikkatt Varghese)

Monash Health is facing a s.372 staff dispute notice in the Fair Work Commission.

Mind Australia Limited has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) with which it must deal in front of Commissioner Simpson in chambers in Brisbane (McNamara).

An application by Life Without Barriers (s.318 – Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and transferring employees) will be ruled upon by Commissioner McKinnon (by telephone) in Melbourne at 2pm today.