An application by Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) will be determined by Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
June 25, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from the Hall & Prior Aged Care Organisation for its Hall & Prior Aged Care Organisation Employee (Non-RN) Enterprise Agreement 2018 has passed muster with Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne on 22 June 2018.
June 25, 2018
A s.394 (Unfair dismissal) application by Heidi Corey against Lyndee Nicholson/Self Managed T/A NDIS (Lyndee self employed) has failed. Fair Work Commissioner Bissett in Melbourne on 22 June 2018 ruled “I am satisfied Ms Corey has not completed the required minimum employment period and her application has no reasonable prospects of success. Consequently, the application is dismissed under s.587(1)(c) of the Act.”
June 25, 2018
A GP and former high profile sports doctor who kept calling, emailing and meeting a married ex-patient, long after their sexual relationship ended, has had his registration cancelled. Dr Neville Blomeley had been suspended over the sexual affair and had attended six counselling sessions, without telling the counsellor he was back in contact with the woman.
June 25, 2018
Smoke was detected at the Hobart Private Hospital and it is believed patients of the maternity ward were evacuated as a precaution and were moved to another area of the building. Investigations into the fire are in the preliminary stages but police say it appears to be minor.
June 25, 2018
Paramedics in full time equivalent roles in Townsville are quitting their jobs at a higher rate than any other region in Queensland. The clinical attrition rate for paramedics in Townsville is 5.4 per cent, according to Queensland Ambulance Service public performance indicators for the financial year to March 2018. The attrition rate is calculated as the number of full time equivalent employees in operational roles who leave QAS as a proportion to the total number of employees.
June 25, 2018
A senior Royal Adelaide Hospital stroke specialist has cancelled her leave after uproar following revelations two senior specialists — of only four accredited in the state to suction brain blood clots — were again going on leave at the same time. The last time both interventional neuro-radiologists (INR) Dr Rebecca Scroop and Dr James Taylor went on leave at the same time, the RAH was left without a specialist who could do the procedure. Michael John Russell, 60, and Leslie Robert Graham, 81, died at the RAH in April last year, when both specialists were on leave and there was no-one on call to perform the procedure, and their deaths are the subject of a coronial inquiry.
June 22, 2018
Uniting Care Queensland has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) which it must defend before Commissioner Simpson (Wenman).
