NEWS-HR

A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Melbourne City Mission Inc for its Melbourne City Mission Health Professionals (Palliative Care) Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Deputy President Masson in Melbourne on 19 January 2018.

A man has been found dead after a motorised buggy veered down a concrete embankment and into a creek in Melbourne’s east. Police believe the man was riding along the Scotchmans Creek Trail at Mount Waverley on Saturday when the buggy veered over a concrete embankment and into the water. When they arrived, police found the 52-year-old from Mount Waverley dead.

The Woodhaugh Hospital and Rest Home in North Dunedin has been evacuated after a fire in one of its bedrooms.

The second case of myrtle rust has been found at a New Plymouth retirement village. The fungal disease, which attacks various species of plants in the myrtle family, such as pōhutukawa, mānuka and rātā, has been found at the Summerset Mountain View retirement village in New Plymouth.

Tenants of an Auckland state home, unhappy with building work in their backyard, “threatened to shoot” the social housing agency’s contractors. Tensions rose after builders removed the tenants’ chicken coop, a trampoline and a clothesline to make way for a Housing New Zealand home on the back section. The confrontation, detailed in a tenancy tribunal finding published online in December, came about after builders offered to replace the clothesline and the tenant responded by threatening to shoot. Work was immediately suspended for a fortnight, until the tenant calmed down.

Outcare Incorporated is facing a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) before Deputy President Binet in Conference Room 12.34 & Breakout Room in Perth at 3pm today (Kickett).

A s.394 (Unfair dismissal) application by Donna Edwards against The Trustee for The ARC Unit Trust T/A Arcare has been dismissed by Commissioner in Melbourne on 18 January 2018.

Aged care business and tax specialist Bruce bailey has joined the board of RSL LifeCare.