Nurses at Townsville Hospital claim they have been refused permanent security guards after a string of vicious assaults. The Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union will be requesting an “urgent review” of workplace health and safety at the Alec Illin Secure Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit. Nurses in the unit said staff had repeatedly approached management at meetings with requests for a guard in their unit after a number of assaults. The Townsville Hospital and Health Service revealed the board will this week consider a recommendation to trial increasing security in the unit temporarily.
June 19, 2018
A s.225 (Application for termination of an enterprise agreement after its nominal expiry date) by Challenge Community Services Pty Ltd T/A Challenge Community Services for the Challenge Disability Services Workplace Agreement 2009 has been agreed by Fair Work Commissioner Johns sitting in Sydney on 18 June 2018.
June 19, 2018
A single mother will be torn apart from her eight-year-old Australian-born son after she was given final deportation orders to leave the country in three weeks’ time. Brisbane aged care worker Bernadette Romulo has also been banned from re-entering the country for three years, meaning she will not see her son Giro again until he is 11 years old. Ms Romulo and her two daughters from a previous relationship, aged 12 and 13, have lived in Australia for the past 11 years but are being deported to the Philippines after their application for permanent residency was rejected. The distraught mother’s appeal for a ministerial intervention into her visa case was dismissed by Assistant Minister for Home Affairs Alex Hawke last December but she has been given several extensions on her departure date over the past few months amid national media coverage of her plight. However, Ms Romulo was last week told that she must leave the country by July 11 and show proof she has bought plane tickets by July 5.
June 19, 2018
A Portsea resident has been awarded a medal in the general division OAM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Trevor Douglas Martyn said he was “amazed and proud to be considered” for the award for service to the community. He is on the boards of several businesses and is chairman of residential aged care and disability services provider Mayflower, and director of Decoral Trust.”
June 18, 2018
Rosemary Kayess, the Interim-Director of UNSW’s Disability Innovation Institute, has been elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
June 18, 2018
A s.365 (General protections) application by Maree Howard against Medical and Aged Care Group T/A Humphries Road Medical Clinic has been turned down by Fair Work Commissioner Platt in Adelaide on 13 June 2018.
June 18, 2018
Centre Orthodontics will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Commissioner Cirkovic in his Brisbane chambers (Cowan).
June 18, 2018
Australian Laboratory Services Pty Ltd has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) with which it must deal before Fair Work Commissioner Williams in Hearing Room 4 in Brisbane (Yaneza).
