NEWS-HR

A 14th resident at a Western Sydney aged care facility has died after contracting coronavirus, with NSW health authorities confirming four new cases.

A s.586 (Correcting and amending applications and documents etc) application from the Australian Red Cross Society has been allowed by Deputy President Masson in Melbourne on 1 May 2020.

The Health Services Union tried to have a Fair Work Commissioner removed from hearing orders it was seeking against life without barriers and all it got was a slapdown from Commissioner McKinnon in a 7 page ‘go to hell’ adjudication.

A Melbourne paramedic has tested positive to COVID-19, forcing her colleagues into quarantine.

NSW health authorities are investigating possible infection control breaches by staff of a Sydney aged care facility at the centre of a coronavirus cluster. There have been 61 cases and 14 deaths related to transmission at the western Sydney facility. On Saturday, it was announced that two staff members had contracted the virus and NSW Health have deployed two infection control nurses to the facility to review its procedures.

Aboriginal Hostels Limited has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to answer before Commissioner Riordan in chambers in Sydney (Smith).

A s.185 (Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) by Baptistcare WA Limited for its BaptistCare WA Limited (HSUWA) Administrative and Technical Services Agreement 2019 has been approve by Fair Work Commissioner Booth in Brisbane on 29 April 2020.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Sunrise Health Services Aboriginal Corporation for its Sunrise Health Service Aboriginal Corporation Enterprise Agreement 2019-2022 has been ratified by Fair Work Deputy President Asbury in Brisbane on 29 April 2020.