Royal Wolf, the largest supplier of shipping containers for affordable housing in Australasia, has appointed Franceine Wilson as Business Development Manager as it continues to expand in the New Zealand market.
April 18, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Meercroft Care Incorporated for its Meercroft Care Inc Enterprise Bargaining Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell sitting in Melbourne on 17 April 2018.
April 18, 2018
A doctor facing rape charges has been refused bail. The doctor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested on March 24 and charged with eight counts of rape, as well as attempting to pervert the course of justice. It will be alleged that one count of rape was committed against a patient in 2012. The doctor faces a total 25 charges before the court, 13 of which he was already on bail for when the fresh charges were laid. His charges include eight counts of rape, two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, five counts of breach of bail conditions, four counts of common assault, taking reprisal, threatening violence and wilful damage. A bail application was made in the Townsville Magistrates Court last week but Magistrate Scott Luxton reserved his decision until this afternoon.
April 18, 2018
An application by Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) is the preserve of Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne at 12.30pm.
April 18, 2018
A former hospital anaesthetic technician could have put the lives of three vulnerable patients at risk, by stealing their painkillers for himself, just before or during their operations. Evan Leslie Kajewski, 40, who substituted the drug fentanyl with saline solution while working at the Mater Hospital last year, has been jailed for two months. “His actions in replacing fentanyl with saline solution was when patients were at their most vulnerable,” magistrate Judith Daley said. Innocent people were put at risk, prosecutor Maria Vassilakos told the court. Kajewski pleaded guilty to fraud, stealing as a servant while working at Brisbane’s Mater Hospital, unlawful possession of the opiate drug fentanyl and possession of drug utensils.
April 18, 2018
Scalabrini Village Aged Care is set to defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 11-4 – Level 11 in Sydney at 3.30pm (Singh).
April 18, 2018
A senior doctor at Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital has been stood down over allegations of misconduct. Director of cardiology Professor Darren Walters was taken off his duties asthe hospital investigates claims of misappropriation in his department. The Crime and Corroption Commission also received a complaint.
April 17, 2018
The Royal Children’s Hospital has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) which it must defend before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E and Conference Room F – Level 6 in Melbourne (Garland).