TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT – Small Business Fair Dismissal Code – ss.394, 400, 604 Fair Work Act 2009 – appeal – Full Bench – at first instance Commission found employee was unfairly dismissed and ordered appellant to pay compensation of $25,765.22 less taxation – Full Bench satisfied appellant was denied procedural fairness – satisfied the denial of procedural fairness impacted the outcome of the hearing – these natural justice defects were not overcome by the provision of the first decision, the transcript, an opportunity to call further evidence and cross-examine respondent at second hearing – appeal allowed – decision quashed – matter remitted to a different Commission Member to be re-determined. Appeal by Steric Solutions P/L against a decision of Johns C of 29 September 2017 [[2017] FWC 5068] Re: Trialonas
February 1, 2018
Community Development Services Inc is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers (Mitchell).
February 1, 2018
An aged-carer accused of seriously assaulting an elderly woman has been remanded in custody in Adelaide. Phillip Jason Athanasos, 45, appeared in Adelaide Magistrates Court yesterday over the alleged assault of an 81-year-old woman at a residential care facility on Sunday. Athanasos was remanded in custody to return to court on April 10.
February 1, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Seventh-day Adventist Aged Care (North NSW) Ltd T/A Adventist Senior Living for The Adventist Senior Living, NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Sydney on 31 January.
February 1, 2018
Investigations are continuing into the discovery of more than 500 cannabis plants found growing inside a former nursing home in Sydney’s west. Police raided the former Wynleigh Nursing Home on Chalmers Road at Strathfield on Tuesday morning. With the assistance from the Bass Hill Region Enforcement Squad, officers searched the property and allegedly found 530 cannabis plants growing under hydro lights throughout the building. The plants were ripped up and seized, along with the hydroponic equipment used to grow them. The old aged care home was declared a crime scene and examined by forensic police. No charges have yet been laid, with investigations into the discovery continuing.
February 1, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Tinonee Gardens The Multicultural Village Limited for its Tinonee Gardens The Multicultural Village Limited, NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been granted by Commissioner Saunders in Sydney on 31 January 2018.
February 1, 2018
More charges could be laid against an Adelaide chiropractor who has admitted to using hidden cameras to indecently film hundreds of his patients including children, the Adelaide Magistrates Court has heard. Last month the man, whose identity is suppressed, pleaded guilty to 216 charges including indecent filming, production of child exploitation material and assault. The court previously heard the man was a self-confessed sex addict and filmed female clients aged between 11 and 60 while they were undressing in change rooms. On two occasions he filmed the vaginas of a young girl and a woman during massages. The court heard when one of his patients discovered she was being filmed he physically assaulted her trying to retrieve his camera and SD card. During a hearing on Wednesday the man was expected to be committed to the District Court for sentencing. However, the prosecution told the court they were contemplating laying further charges against him stemming from an analysis of “e-crime material”. Around 30 of the man’s victims attended the court hearing.
February 1, 2018
The community representative commissioner for the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) Dr Sundram Sivamalai has been reappointed for a second term.
