A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Nagambie Healthcare Incorporated for the Nagambie Healthcare Inc Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2018 has been granted by Deputy President Masson in Melbourne on 18 March 2019.
March 20, 2019
A s.394 (unfair dismissal) application by Antoinette House citing the Munjuwa Health Housing and Community Aboriginal Corporation T/A Munjuwa Queanbeyan Aboriginal Corporation has been rejected by Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra on 19 March 2019. His case summary reads “Application for an unfair dismissal remedy – application under s.399A to dismiss the application as a result of the Applicant’s unreasonable failure to comply with Directions and to attend a telephone non-compliance hearing – unfair dismissal application dismissed.”
March 20, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Healthscope Operations Pty Ltd T/A Healthscope for the Mount Hospital – Registered Nurses – Enterprise Agreement 2018-2020 has been ratified by Fair Work Deputy President Gostencnik sitting in Melbourne on 19 March 2019.
March 20, 2019
The Oolong Aboriginal Corporation has a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal (consent arbitration)) in front of Deputy President Kovacic in his ACT chambers (Ardler).
March 20, 2019
A Gold Coast man parked his car out the front of his former psychologist’s workplace for seven weeks but did not try to contact her, a court has been told. Peter Frederick Reynolds yesterday pleaded guilty in the Southport District Court to one count of stalking. It was the second time Reynolds had stalked the same woman. Judge Julie Dick placed Reynolds on a three year probation order with the condition he must undergo any mental health care ordered by probation and parole officers and doctors. Ms Dick said Reynolds conduct would have left the woman in fear. “Even through the defendants may not understand what they are doing, there is an impact that the victim becomes hyper vigilant and it interferes with their day to day lives,” she said. Reynolds’ barrister Nick McGhee, instructed by Buckland Allen Criminal Lawyers, told the court his client suffered mental health issues after being stabbed in 1988. Mr McGhee said Reynolds had become upset after the woman had said she was no longer able to treat him as patient. A conviction was recorded.
March 20, 2019
A psychiatric nurse saw one of her colleagues being held in a headlock by a patient and slammed into a locker, the Supreme Court in Hobart has heard. Medical doctor Arlene Maree Taylor, 35, who was a patient at the Royal Hobart Hospital’s psychiatric intensive care unit in September 2015, has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a nurse on September 24. Nurse Jennifer Symonds today said she was working on the day the alleged assaults took place. “I saw Elizabeth being pulled up in a headlock by Arlene and I saw Arlene dragging Elizabeth out the bedroom door,” Ms Symonds said. She said she and another nurse went to help their colleague. “Elizabeth … was unable to free herself … she was being thrown about and ended up being thrown into a locker,” Ms Symonds said “When she was slammed up against the locker, her eyes went bulgy — for want of a better word — and she screamed out in pain and dropped to the floor briefly.” Dr Taylor, who is representing herself, told the jury she did not dispute that a scuffle took place. Dr Taylor said she had been detained under the Mental Health Act against her will at the time. She said detained patients “can be administered medications against your will”. Dr Taylor said whether she was intoxicated at the time to the point the insanity defence could be invoked would be an issue on the trial. Crown prosecutor Tony Jacobs said the alleged assaults were clearly intentional. The trial, before Acting Justice David Porter, is continuing.
March 19, 2019
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Wilson in the Fair Work Commission 11 Exhibition Street in Melbourne (10am).
March 19, 2019
Latrobe Regional Hospital has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to answer before Deputy President Clancy in the Fair Work Commission 11 Exhibition Street Melbourne at noon (Scott).
