A s.394 (Unfair dismissal) costs application by Lorraine Roche citing the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Wagga Wagga has been determined by Fair Work Deputy President Dean in Sydney on 24 April 2019. Costs were awarded on a party to party basis.
April 29, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from John Curtin Aged Care Inc for its John Curtin Aged Care Inc, and Staff Enterprise Agreement 2019 has been commissioned by Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell sitting in Melbourne on 24 April 2019.
April 29, 2019
Totally Smiles Pty Ltd is in disarray over a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged for hearing before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in his Sydney chambers (Flynn).
April 26, 2019
Australian Red Cross Blood Services is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Deputy President Bull in his NSW chambers (Narayan).
April 26, 2019
Ambulance Victoria is dealing with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Deputy President Gostencnik in Court 5 and Conference Room D – Level 6 in Melbourne.
April 26, 2019
A former registrar at the Royal Hobart Hospital has been suspended for six weeks after calling for women to be raped. The Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal last week found Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee, 31, guilty of professional misconduct. The Medical Board of Australia has alleged that Dr Lee made “inappropriate comments” in Singaporean chat rooms while working and residing in Hobart in December 2016. During the tribunal hearings, Chairman Robert Webster listed some of the derogatory comments made by Dr Lee. “Some women deserve to be raped, and that supercilious little bitch fits the bill in every way,” one of the comments said. “She needs to be abandoned in India and repeatedly raped in order for her to wake up her idea. “I am a medical practitioner. I also have a foul mouth and call a spade a spade. “I can just as easily condemn your mother for a whore.” In the decision, handed down on April 17, Mr Webster said Dr Lee’s comments were “disrespectful of women”, “racially discriminatory” and had “potential to cause harm to the public”. He also found Dr Lee was identifiable as an Australian medical practitioner, which constituted professional misconduct under national law and common law. Dr Lee told the tribunal he was “relatively young and inexperienced” when he made the comments and said he had “a brash and opinionated bent” to his conduct on social media. The tribunal also found Dr Lee “did not fully appreciate that posting comments on a Singaporean online forum would have consequences on his practise of medicine in Australia”.
April 26, 2019
A wheelchair-bound woman claims she was victim of a traumatic assault at the hands of an elderly woman in Geelong hospital. Julie, who did not want her surname published, was recovering from having a fistula made for dialysis when she says she was set upon by an elderly patient with dementia. The elderly patient grabbed Julie’s arm — still tender from the fistula procedure — while the pair were in a room where Julie had been watching television. The elderly woman later kicked her wheelchair and bashed her with an umbrella in the head and neck, Julie said. Barwon Health has labelled the situation “unfortunate” and apologised for the distress caused by the February 14 incident.
April 26, 2019
Being spat on, sworn at or physically assaulted is not in the ambulance job description and nor should it happen. That is the message to the Townsville community in a new campaign targeting abuse on the job. The Queensland Ambulance Service today launched the campaign calling on the community to respect staff, because “there’s no excuse for abuse”. Paramedics will share their stories of violence and abuse on the job. The Townsville region reported 54 cases of occupational violence to the 12 months to June 2018, up from 50 the previous year. Already 38 cases have been reported in the 2018-19 financial year.
