NEWS-HR

The Australian Medical Association (Victoria) Limited and Mercy Hospitals Victoria Ltd have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) on foot before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne at 4.15pm today.

Monash Health will contest a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute in relation to flexible working arrangements) before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne (Williams).

Mary Trotter has been named the Collaborative Leader of the Year in the annual local health district’s health innovation awards. Mrs Trotter is the nursing unit manager of the Wauchope Palliative Care Unit.

A s.394 (Unfair dismissal) application from Oliver Bridgwater against Healthscope Operations Pty Ltd T/A Prince of Wales Private Hospital has been dismissed by Fair Work Senior Deputy President Hamberger in Sydney on 2 July 2018.

A doctor accused of sexually assaulting a patient wants to leave the country ahead of his trial to visit his mother’s grave in Sri Lanka on the anniversary of her death. Priyantha Padmike Dayananda has pleaded not guilty to sexually penetrating a woman who was in his care at Bunbury Health Campus in Western Australia late last year. He faced Bunbury Magistrates court today. The WA Country Health Service (WACHS) had suspended the medical practitioner in the wake of the allegations. WACHS chief executive Jeffrey Moffet said the alleged behaviour was unacceptable and not reflective of the high standards at WA hospitals.

North Buderim Pharmacy has a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) with which it must contend before Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers (Cole).

A driver has handed himself in to police after a hit-run left a Melbourne aged care worker in hospital with serious injuries. Helen Patten, 62, was driving to along Mount Dandenong Road in Croydon on her way to a night shift about 9.45pm when her car was struck.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Tandara Lodge Community Care Inc for The Tandara Lodge Community Inc General Staff Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders sitting in Newcastle on 3 July 2018.