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Craigcare Group Pty Limited has been served with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Harper-Greenwell (Video using Microsoft Teams) in Melbourne at 2pm (Luani)

Dtcrs Pty Ltd T/A Dtcrs has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) to defend before Fair Work Commissioner Simpson (by telephone QLD) in Brisbane (Kelly)

Long-standing board member Helen Algar is retiring from the group which runs Oamaru Hospital. Waitaki District Health Services Ltd announced Ms Algar’s pending retirement yesterday. She would step down from the board at the end of next month. Ms Algar has been a member of the board for more than 10 years and is its chairwoman.

Scope (Aust) Ltd T/A Scope has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) with which it must deal before Commissioner Yilmaz (Video using Microsoft Teams) in Melbourne today (Rees)

Minyumai Land Holding Aboriginal Corporation has been served with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to be determined by Deputy President Boyce (By Telephone AEST (NSW Time) in Sydney (Gomes)

UnitingSA Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Beaumont In Chambers in Hobart at noon (Booth)

Healius has appointed Jan Van Rooyen – former chief executive of South Africa’s AMPATH – as its new pathology boss amid an attempted hostile takeover from smaller rival Australian Clinical Labs. Dr Van Rooyen will start at the company as its group executive, Healius Pathology, on June 1, replacing John McKechnie as part of “refresh” of its executive leadership. His appointment follows Healius’s board blasting ACL’s nil-premium offer as “plainly inadequate” and questioned the $95m in cost savings that ACL said it could deliver from a merged group.

The boss of Victoria’s trouble-plagued triple-0 service has resigned. Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority chief Stephen Leane, the brother of Andrews government minister Shaun Leane, will finish with the service later this month after almost two years in the job. Mr Leane was appointed chief executive last April, having acted as interim chief executive since October 2021.