NEWS-HR

Glorious Health Australia Pty Ltd is still in a s.372 staff wrangle in the Fair Work Commission (Aneke).

Thompson Healthcare Pty Ltd is in the second day of a Full Bench appeal (Adamopoulos).

The man who lured, raped and murdered outback nurse Gayle Woodford has lost his bid to have his jail sentence reduced. Dudley Davey was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 32 years for murdering and raping Ms Woodford and stealing her ambulance in South Australia’s APY Lands in March last year. The sentencing judge said it was a cold-blooded murder of a woman who worked with skill and compassion in the community. Davey lodged an appeal against his sentence arguing it was manifestly excessive and he should have been given a greater discount for his guilty pleas. The timing of Davey’s pleas entitled him to a potential discount of up to 30 per cent under South Australian legislation.

A s.248 (Single interest employer authorisation) application by Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association has been approved by Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne on 16 November 2017.

An elderly man was taken to hospital after being shot following an argument with another tenant at a senior housing complex.

The sister of a disabled woman who died after her calls for help were downplayed and dismissed by medics has pleaded for SA Health to ensure such a preventable death never happens again. Rita Ann Broadway, 66, died on January 2, 2015 from a urinary tract infection with a background of heart disease and diabetes. Two days before her death, the former school teacher was taken to Modbury Hospital by ambulance after complaining of pain near her bladder catheter. A coronial inquest into her death heard her calls for the catheter to be changed were unmet while in hospital, and that her life could have been saved had doctors treated her for a urinary tract infection.

Health Services Union and Life Without Barriers have a (s.739 – Application to deal with a dispute) before Deputy President Hamilton in Court 3 & Conference Room B – Level 6 in Melbourne at 10.15am.

Belgravia Health & Leisure Group Pty Ltd will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Deputy President Hamilton in his Melbourne chambers at 4pm (Dowling).