A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Edith Bendall Lodge T/A Edith Bendall Lodge Inc for the Edith Bendall Lodge Inc, ANMF and HSU Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been agreed by Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in Melbourne on 9 May 2018.
May 10, 2018
A single mother who rorted more than $10,500 from a nursing home has pleaded guilty to stealing property as a clerk in court. Chantelle Burkett, 31, worked at Uralla’s McMaugh Gardens Aged Care Centre from 2016, and was caught out when the accounts manager ran a dip test of petty cash. She appeared at Armidale Local Court on Monday. Often taking clients to appointments in Tamworth and Armidale, Burkett would use petty cash to make purchases for the clients or the facility. The float had $500 to pay for expenses, and on December 5 last year, the accounts manager noticed there was a consistent amount of $500 being taken out and used entirely by Burkett. Defence solicitor Frank Falcomata said his client is a single mother, who used the money to care for her child. “She tells me the reason for her actions is that she had always been a struggling single mother, the father rarely contributes to any bills,” he said. “She regrets her actions, the monies she improperly obtained were for the purchase of clothes and food and she did it over a period of a little more than a year.” Police evidence shows the accounts manager noticed a number of receipts didn’t match with what Burkett was purchasing for the clients. Some of the claims were meant to be $60 and she had put a ‘1’ in front to make the claim $160. Burkett also purchased meat products, a move that is against the council’s operating procedures as meat must be supplied by an approved contractor. When the accounts manager confronted Burkett, she claimed the purchases were for council staff and the facility, but when the other staff members were asked they said Burkett was lying. An audit of the receipts showed Burkett consistently changed the cost amount and pocketed the difference, and when she was confronted with the allegations by staff she admitted taking the money. On December 18, Burkett resigned by email and wrote she knew police would be involved, she might be charged and go to court – and that she knew what she did wasn’t right. The court heard Burkett did not have substance abuse problems, but would have a limited capacity to reimburse the money, owed to Uralla Shire Council. The matter was adjourned to July 2 for sentencing with no bail, Burkett will attempt to pay some of the money in the meantime.
May 10, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Mt View Homes Inc for its Mt View Homes Inc Nurses Employees (Aged Care) Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 9 May 2018.
May 10, 2018
A Melbourne doctor accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old patient had also allegedly asked her inappropriately intimate questions about her sex life, a court has been told. Doctor Azit Das, aged in his mid-50s, is facing trial in the County Court after pleading not guilty to touching the teenager’s breasts without her consent during a consultation at a medical clinic in Mill Park, in Melbourne’s outer-north, in March 2016.
May 10, 2018
Tenterfield Care Centre Limited will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Cambridge in the Fair Work Commission Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney today (Wait).
May 10, 2018
A Canberra aged care worker, who was accused of grabbing a 17-year-old colleague by the throat and yelling “I could kill you” after she ordered too many biscuits, has been cleared. Lakshman Senanayake was charged with assault over the incident, which took place in June 2016. It was alleged he blew up at a colleague, grabbing her by the neck with “eight-out-of-ten” force, after she ordered biscuits for residents’ morning tea without first checking if biscuits were in stock. “That’s when he grabbed me around the throat and said, ‘I could kill you’,” the woman told the court in evidence last year. It was alleged that after Mr Senanayake grabbed the girl, she said, “You’ve gone too far this time”, to which he replied, “Sorry darl”. The victim had given evidence that in the week preceding the alleged incident, Mr Senanayake had been speaking down to her, saying she could not do her job properly. However, Mr Senanayake said he only approached the girl to remind her to check the biscuit supply before ordering more, and that their hands briefly came into contact when she gestured for him to go away. Magistrate Robert Cook found there were several inconsistencies in the woman’s evidence, and criticised the police investigation into the alleged assault.
May 10, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia Central Operations for its Royal Flying Doctor Service, Central Operations, Operations Co-ordinators Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Wilson whilst sitting in Melbourne on 9 May 2018.
May 9, 2018
Aboriginal Elders and Community Care Services has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal) on is hands with Fair Work Commissioner Hampton in Hearing Room 6.2 – Level 6 in Adelaide (Cammarere).
