NEWS-HR

Tanunda Lutheran Home Inc will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Platt in his Adelaide chambers (Crampton).

Nurses are under pressure because doctor services have dropped at Bunbury Regional Prison in WA and there has been no increase in staff numbers to go with the rising inmate population, a report has found. Acting Inspector of Custodial Services Andrew Harvey said most services are under pressure and backlogs are too common. The state government announced in December the prison would house an additional 160 prisoners, with a new double-bunked accommodation unit inside the main jail plus the re-opening of an unused minimum security section.

Fronditha Care has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) which it must defend before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Court 2 – Level 6 in Melbourne (Onisiforou).

A disqualified doctor who once had a sexual fling with a patient and separately performed a series of sub-par skin cancer checks has taken his legal battle to the NT Supreme Court to start seeing patients again. Dr Wijeneka Liyanage, also known as Dr Aruna Liyanage, has commenced appeal proceedings in the Supreme Court, where lawyers appeared for a closed-door listings hearing last month. The reasons behind Dr Liyanage’s appeal have not yet been aired in open court. The appeal has been set for hearing in mid July.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Norfolk Island Health and Residential Aged Care Service for the Norfolk Island Health and Residential Aged Care Service Enterprise Agreement 2017-2021 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Wilson in Melbourne.

Families within a one kilometre radius of the Cobrico peat fire can finally return to their homes. After almost three weeks, incident controller Mark Gunning said people had been notified that it was finally safe to go home. He said in the coming days the elderly would be moved back into aged care services and children would be able to go back to school in Cobden.

The Vein Institute has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) on its hands. Deputy President Dean in Hearing Room 14-2 – Level 14 in Sydney will hear the Dugan application.

Four residents at a Mt Gambier aged care facility have been struck down by salmonella gastroenteritis. The Boandik aged care centre is working with SA Health to investigate the source of the outbreak, which was confined to its Lake Terrace site.