NEWS-HR

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Latrobe Community Health Service will contest a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne at 10.30am.

A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Mayflower Brighton for its Mayflower Health and Allied Services Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in Melbourne on 22 February 2018.

An application by Regis Aged Care Pty Ltd (s.318 – Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and transferring employees) is to be determined today.

An application by Health Services Union (s.319 – Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and non-transferring employees) is to be heard by Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in his Melbourne chambers at the same time.

An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (s.319 – Application for an older relating to instruments covering new employer and non-transferring employees) is with Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in his Melbourne chambers at 9am.

A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Epworth Foundation T/A Epworth Healthcare for its Epworth Healthcare Emergency Medicine Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Deputy President Masson in Melbourne on 22 February.

A luxury nursing home served food with maggots, let a lady go unshowered for weeks and left a mattress covered in faeces for months after a resident died, complaints to the aged-care watchdog reveal. Wesley Mission’s John Wesley Gardens, which opened in the north Brisbane suburb of Geebung barely a year ago, was the subject of complaints to the Aged Care Complaints Commission (ACCC) about food, cleanliness and quality of care. In confidential findings, the ACCC reveals a resident was served a meal “that contained a maggot or grub”. “The service acknowledges the incident occurred and has put strategies in place (including) … the removal of baby potatoes as a menu item,” the ACCC said in its decision. The ACCC also investigated a complaint that “a resident was not showered for three weeks and was found with a continence aid containing mouldy faeces, vaginal discharge and excess stale urine”.

A s.319 (Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and non-transferring employees) by NewDirection Bellmere Pty Ltd T/A NewDirection Care at Bellmere has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner in Brisbane on 22 February 2018.