The Health Services Union and Barwon Health will debate a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) with Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne.
September 20, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Southern Cross Care (Tas) Inc for its Southern Cross Care (Tas) Inc and Mary’s Grange Inc Staff Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne on 19 September 2018.
September 20, 2018
ACH Group is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Conference Room 6a – Level 6 in Adelaide (Kutchen).
September 20, 2018
Breaking News! Owen Rolf Nixon has been sentenced by Wagga Local Court after terrorising Riverina Gums Retirement Village.
September 20, 2018
A nursing home worker said “what are you whingeing for?” and “you can go to sleep now” as he repeatedly punched an elderly and vulnerable resident, an Adelaide court has heard. Michael Andrew Mullen was working at the Lourdes Valley Residential Care Centre when he allegedly punched resident Elizabeth “Libby” Hannaford in the early hours of November 19, 2015. Mullen, 54, has pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated assault and is on trial before Adelaide Magistrate Elizabeth Sheppard. Opening the trial, prosecutor Patrick Hill said Ms Hannaford squealed and screamed as Mullen punched her four or five times to the right side of her face out of frustration. Mr Hill said the assault was aggravated because Ms Hannaford was over 60 years of age and “particularly vulnerable”, and because Mullen was in a position of trust. Mullen allegedly lost his temper after Ms Hannaford repeatedly pulled out cords which alerted staff if she fell out of her bed. “ (Mullen) said ‘if you don’t stop doing this and I have to come back again there will be bloody consequences’ and ‘I have had a gutful of you mucking about’,” Mr Hill said. “Out of increasing frustration at Ms Hannaford’s behaviour, and after numerous interactions, the accused struck her to the face more than once.” The court heard the assault was witnessed by Ms Hannaford’s roommate, who told police Mullen had been chastising the 72-year old in a loud, angry voice before she heard sounds “like when you punch your fist into your hand”. The trial will hear some witnesses through a video link and is expected to run for more than a week.
September 20, 2018
A man has faced court charged with the indecent assault of a wheelchair-bound woman suffering severe dementia and Alzheimer’s while he was visiting a Sydney nursing home. David Patrick Frost, 68, was seeing his father at the eastern suburbs aged-care facility in November 2017 when he allegedly pushed the elderly woman into a bedroom, lifted her onto a bed and removed her pants. He’s facing a two-day hearing before magistrate Daniel Covington in Downing Centre Local Court after pleading not guilty to the aggravated indecent assault of a cognitively impaired victim. The alleged victim died in March.
September 20, 2018
Her husband was sending her money from prison, encouraging her to spend it or transfer it to others. Rotorua nurse Linda Olive Aldworth did – and the courts found she laundered almost $340,000 from Mohamed Atta over a year and a half. The Rotorua woman told a disciplinary tribunal she was “living in a make-believe world”, not thinking about where that cash came from. After her 2016 conviction, the Crown seized and sold her house, and she has now been barred from a return to nursing. Until then, her almost 40-year career had been unblemished, a recently-released New Zealand Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal decision said. However, the offending was “so serious and sustained” that she couldn’t remain registered. “Her misconduct goes to the heart of the practitioner’s integrity,” a decision said. Almost $342,000 from “unidentified sources” went into accounts Aldworth operated – including two in the names of her grandchildren – between January 2013 and October 2014. That was almost $3622 a week “over and above her legitimate income”, according to court documents. She once transferred $12,669 to one of Atta’s family members in Egypt, and also bought herself “items including a motor vehicle, a spa pool and a lounge suite”. Atta, it transpired, was the New Zealand ringleader of a methamphetamine ring uncovered by an 18-month investigation. Aldworth served ten-and-a-half months on home detention, had completed courses, and wanted to return to nursing, the tribunal heard. She apologised for her offences. Aldworth’s nursing registration was cancelled and she was formally censured. She now works in a hotel kitchen, boards with her daughter and grandchildren, and has no material assets, the decision said.
September 19, 2018
St Joan of Arc Villa has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) which it will defend before Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers at 4pm (Donovan).
