An application for approval of the Envigor Home Care Enterprise Agreement 2018 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be heard by Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers.
May 20, 2019
Baptist Care (SA) Inc is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Deputy President Anderson in chambers in Adelaide (Delbridge).
May 20, 2019
Health Minister Roger Cook says he will have an urgent meeting with hospital bosses and staff representatives after a violent attack on a nurse at Royal Perth Hospital. The 55-year-old woman was stabbed in the neck with a makeshift weapon, causing a deep wound, on Sunday. Mr Cook said there had been an escalation in attacks on frontline hospital staff and the McGowan Government was committed to stopping it. “We will work with our frontline representatives to make sure we put measures in places to protect them,” he said today. “We will design better security measures. There will be an immediate move to provide more security staff and we will examine the powers that they have. “We will examine the data to make sure that’s consistent across all our hospitals.” Mr Cook said he would also ask the health director general David Russell-Weisz to discuss improvements to how patients who are or were in police custody are handled in hospitals. Police allege Justin Trent Narrier, 30, stabbed the nurse at about 1.30am after approaching her from behind. Narrier was left unguarded at RPH despite having been arrested earlier in the day over a separate serious assault. Australian Nursing Federation WA secretary Mark Olsen said nurses did not want another “talkfest” but wanted immediate action.
May 20, 2019
A Melbourne doctor is facing claims he sexually assaulted more than 40 patients across four decades. Con Kyriacou, 75, is facing dozens of counts of raping, indecently assaulting or sexually penetrating patients without their consent. The allegations date back to the 1970s and span four decades. The Melbourne Magistrates’ Court was told today 44 women had contacted police to make allegations against the now deregistered doctor. Mr Kyriacou was excused from today’s hearing but has previously faced court. On that occasion he smiled and laughed as he left court refusing to comment except to say: “the whole thing is stupid”. One of the women who has made a complaint against the doctor said today she was concerned with his attitude. “He was making a mockery of the claims, which I found personally offensive,” the woman said outside court. “His facial gestures and the things he was saying. He was being very dismissive and I found that personally offensive and upsetting. I found it really distressing.” The woman said she was empowered to make a police complaint after seeing news reports that the doctor had been charged. “I’d like to thank the three women who did came forward initially…I appreciate that they’ve done that, it does take courage to do it,” she said. Mr Kyriacou surrendered his registration to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) in August last year and has since been unable to practise as a doctor. Despite this, AHPRA is pursuing in action against Mr Kyriacou before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, where it will allege he “engaged in professional misconduct”. VCAT has the power to suspend or cancel a practitioner’s registration. Following charges being laid an AHPRA spokeswoman said allegations were first raised about the conduct of Mr Kyriacou in February and August, 2016. Mr Kyriacou remains on bail until his next court appearance on June 14. His lawyer said today Mr Kyriacou would undergo neurological testing before that hearing.
May 20, 2019
The Department of Health and Human Services is set to defend a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Lee in Court 12 – Level 5 and Conference Room A – Level 5 in Melbourne (Gardener).
May 17, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from The Trustee for Lifehouse Australia Trust T/A Lifehouse Australia for its Lifehouse Australia Specialist Enterprise Agreement 2019 has been ratified by Fair Work Deputy P resident Saunders sitting in Newcastle on 16 May 2019.
May 17, 2019
The Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation and Canberra Health Services are contesting a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute in relation to flexible working arrangements) before Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic in chambers in Canberra.
May 17, 2019
A hospital security guard who was attacked by a patient wielding an oxygen cylinder was failed by her employer and the Waikato DHB, the union says. The female guard was seriously injured in the early morning assault at a surgical ward at Waikato Hospital. “She’s suffered severely, with multiple injuries to her head, face and body, and will require multiple surgeries,” E tū Waikato senior organiser Iriaka Rauhihi said in a statement. “It’ll be a long road to recovery and we’re lucky we’re not dealing with a fatality.” Rauhihi, who has visited the guard in hospital, says the woman’s family is horrified by what’s happened to her. The guard is employed by DHB security contractor, Allied Security.
