NEWS-HR

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Centre Orthodontics will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Commissioner Cirkovic in his Brisbane chambers (Cowan).

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).

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by St Andrews Village (ACT) T/A St Andrews Village for the St Andrews Village Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 13 June 2018.