Pay rises in the property industry are outstripping other sectors, with junior staff enjoying the best gains and companies moving to quarterly salary reviews to protect their best employees from poachers. A range of positions reported healthy pay rises, including assistant contract administrators in the building, design and construction sector, who saw a median 3.5 per cent pay increase to $81,000. Assistant village managers working in retirement living and aged care had a 3.3 per cent increase to $68,000.
March 20, 2018
This week NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard, unveiling the State Government’s flu strategy, said that health professionals – including “medical staff, nurses, doctors, allied health staff” – working in the state’s most vulnerable hospital wards will receive a compulsory flu shot. These wards include neonatal, cancer and intensive care wards. The move sparked a call from the Immunisation Coalition to extend compulsory flu shots outside NSW and across all health workers. The Coalition says that health care workers have a duty of care to protect vulnerable patients from the threat of flu.
March 20, 2018
The Whanganui District Health Board has offered apologies to the family of an elderly woman who died of complications after district nurses failed to get urgent help for a deteriorating leg wound. Health and Disability commissioner Anthony Hill upheld complaints of inadequate care in a decision released on Monday. The woman’s condition and pain levels grew worse while waiting for a hospital appointment, and after attempts to save her leg, it was amputated below the knee and she died of complications at another hospital. Health board nursing director Sandy Blake said the board and one of the nurses involved in the 80-year-old’s care had formally apologised, and a second nurse had retired. The board had also improved systems to avoid repeating shortcomings identified by the commissioner. One problem was that three staff had independently assessed referrals for the woman, each unaware that there were others, and that her condition was getting worse.
March 20, 2018
Ebos Group has hired Telstra executive Shaun Hughes as chief financial officer after the health-care and pet-care products group promoted John Cullity to chief executive.
March 19, 2018
An armed man who led police on a pursuit and rammed three of their vehicles, held officers at bay for two hours before being arrested at Wollongong Hospital. The emergency department of the NSW hospital had to be evacuated.
March 19, 2018
The Health Services Union and G4S Custodial Services Pty Ltd still have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) on foot before Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Court 5 & Conference Room D – Level 6 in Melbourne.
March 19, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Ashfield Baptist Homes Ltd T/A Ashfield Baptist Homes for The Ashfield Baptist Homes Ltd, NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 7 March 2018.
March 19, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Banksia Villages Ltd T/A Banksia Villages for The Banksia Villages, NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 7 March 2018.
