Epworth is dealing with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) lodged by a staffer (Barros).
June 5, 2018
The department of Health and Human Services is dealing with a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) today before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E and Conference Room F – Level 6 in Melbourne.
June 4, 2018
A 90-year-old woman has been indecently assaulted at an aged-care home in NSW. The alleged assault is understood to have happened just before 8.30am on Friday, May 11. Detectives said a man entered the aged-care facility on Dudley Road at Charlestown and indecently assaulted a female resident.
June 4, 2018
A Taree doctor who prescribed fentanyl and other potent painkillers to drug seekers is the fourth regional doctor, and the third from the same town, to be punished by a tribunal this year for improperly dispensing the strong drugs. Dr Long Phan Nguyen was suspended from practising by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal for inappropriately prescribing the addictive medication to 12 patients between 2010 and 2015. In a case brought about by the Health Care Complaints Commission, Dr Nguyen was found to ha ve simultanously prescribed two benzodiazepines to a drug addict, despite his previous notes revealing the man sold drugs. In another incident Dr Nguyen prescribed fentanyl to a known doctor shopper eight days after previously refusing her.
June 4, 2018
Legal professional John Dicer has been appointed as the sector’s new pricing commissioner.
June 1, 2018
Flinders University Health Service is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Platt in the Fair Work Commission, Level 6 Riverside Centre North Terrace in Adelaide (Shippey).
June 1, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Warrigal Care T/A Warrigal for its Warrigal and NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation NSW Branch, and Health Services Union NSW/ACT Branch Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Commissioner Wilson in Melbourne on 31 May 2018.
June 1, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from the Adelaide Fertility Centre Pty Ltd T/A Repromed for its Adelaide Fertility Centre Pty Ltd (Trading as Repromed) Nursing Employees Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Commissioner Wilson in Melbourne on 31 May 2018.
