Vedas Dental Pty Ltd is to face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) claim before Deputy President Asbury in his Brisbane chambers (ELS).
August 17, 2018
A s.225 (Enterprise agreement) cancellation request from Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Land Manager T/A Eastern Suburbs Memorial park for its Botany Cemetery Trust and Eastern Suburbs Crematorium Trust Trading as Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park Enterprise Agreement Customer Service and Administration Staff 2011 has been agreed by Fair Work Senior Deputy President Hamberger in Melbourne on 16 August 2018.
August 17, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from TSI Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd for the TSI Pharmaceuticals and National Union of Workers Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Lee sitting in Melbourne on 16 August 2018.
August 17, 2018
A s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) sought by Sonny Pettit against Japara T/A Noosa Residential care has failed. Deputy President Asbury in Brisbane on 16 August 2018 said no.
August 17, 2018
Australian Institute of Architects acting President Richard Kirk said former chief executive Jennifer Cunich left the organisation two years and three months into her three-year term by “a joint decision to separate early”. Mr Kirk on Wednesday declined to give any reason for the sudden departure this month of Ms Cunich, a former Victorian director of the Property Council of Australia.
August 17, 2018
Communities @ Work Limited will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic in his ACT chambers (Gulia).
August 17, 2018
An Oamaru doctor infatuated with his intellectually-impaired patient has been sentenced to nine months’ home detention for molesting his victim across eight years. Stephen James Dawson, 60, appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Timaru District Court on Thursday, having pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a female over the age of 16 and doing an indecent act to a person of significant impairment. Judge Maze said from 2008 to 2016, Dawson breached the trust of the complainant by touching her breasts and hips, filming her topless, taking pictures of her wearing a new bra he bought her, and approaching her mother seeking permission to have sex with her. “The offending has been confined to this one victim,” Judge Maze said. “It seems clear you formed an infatuation with this victim.” Crown prosecutor Helen Bennett said the defendant, who worked as a general practitioner in Oamaru for 33 years, was aware his 46-year-old victim could not consent to sexual contact due to a mental age of 12-15. Dawson was convicted and sentenced to nine months’ home detention, and given his first strike under the three-strikes law.
August 17, 2018
On the surface, Dorothy Winifred Pearson was a dutiful citizen, helping her elderly neighbour with her groceries. But the 57-year-old South Dunedin resident was not what she seemed. As soon as Pearson discovered the PIN for the woman’s eftpos card, she “mercilessly” ripped her off, bleeding the victim’s accounts of more than $7000 over 10 months. When the woman, who suffers from mild dementia, discovered the funds were missing, she ended up at the police station watching footage of someone making a withdrawal from her account. She recognised the swindler immediately. “I don’t swear but I said, for the first time ever ‘that’s the bitch, Dorothy Pearson, and she lives right across the street from me’,” the victim said. The rare expletive “eased the pain” at the time, the committed churchgoer said. Pearson appeared in the Dunedin District Court this week after pleading guilty to 10 counts of using a document for a pecuniary advantage. The defendant, who had been a caregiver for 20 years before losing her job recently, had a clean criminal record and argued she should not be photographed in court because she was not a threat to the community. Judge Philip Connell, though, said the offending was significant and potential future employers should be forewarned about the woman’s ability to commit such fraud.
