NEWS-HR

According to the latest Safe Work Australia report on Workers’ Compensation Statistics, there were 104,770 workers’ compensation claims lodged in 2015-16, with health care workers’ claims up 15 per cent.

The Richmond Fellowship of Tasmania Incorporated is facing a brace of s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Deputy President Barcla in Hearing Room 8, First Floor in Hobart (Ohia/Watkins)

A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Healthe Care Australia Pty Ltd for its Healthe Care (Abbotsford Private Hospital & Blackwood River Clinic) Nurses’ Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Melbourne on 2 February 2018.

Health Metrics has appointed economist and entrepreneur Nicholas Gruen as its new chairman.

A s.319 (Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and non-transferring employees) by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has been refused by Deputy President Hamilton in Melbourne.

Aboriginal Family Legal Service Southern Queensland Indigenous Corporation has a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) which it will defend before Commissioner McKinnon in his Brisbane chambers (NZE – Bertram).

Balance! Edmonton Family Practice Pty Ltd is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staffer (Young).

Mater Misericordiae Health Services Brisbane Limited has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) with which it must deal before Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers (McGuiness).