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Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Conference Room 6a – Level 6 in Adelaide today (Horne).

A 51-year-old schizophrenic sufferer has been sentenced to jail, with time already served, for burning down his retirement village unit on Australia Day, causing $190,000 damage. Rodney James Barling was sentenced at the County Court in Ballarat on Wednesday to 236 days in jail,which he has already served, and a four-month community corrections order. Judge John Smallwood described Barling’s offending as a very serious example of arson, where 38 elderly residents were evacuated from the Bacchus Marsh retirement village facility. “It could have been a total disaster but fortunately it wasn’t,” Judge Smallwood said. He said Barling was in the grips of a psychotic episode when he lit the fire shortly before midnight on January 25. “What is clear now … is you were in the grips of a psychotic episode. You were hearing voices, losing your mind,” the judge said. “You stopped taking your medication and it’s in those circumstances your offending occurred.” Judge Smallwood accepted Barling had general remorse of what had occurred.

An aged care worker who was captured on hidden camera slapping and hitting a dementia patient in a Sydney nursing home has been sentenced to at least six months in home detention. Dana Gray, 59, was working in The Poplars aged care home in North Epping last year when one of her colleagues became suspicious of her behaviour and set up the camera. The video shows Gray slapping and pushing the elderly lady and pulling off her clothes aggressively before taking a bag filled with rubbish and hitting her again.

Mayo Healthcare Group Pty Ltd is facing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers (Scarlett).

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.

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.

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).

Breaking News! Owen Rolf Nixon has been sentenced by Wagga Local Court after terrorising Riverina Gums Retirement Village.