At least five aged care facilities on the North West Coast of Tasmania are in lockdown following outbreaks of influenza. The affected nursing homes have restricted visitor access and isolated residents diagnosed with the ‘flu or showing ‘flu-like symptoms. Emmerton Park in Smithton has been in lockdown since Friday morning and has reported five confirmed cases. Director of care Christine Hyde said family members were welcome to phone or Skype with residents and staff were doing one-on-one activities with isolated residents. Chief executive of OneCare, Norm Mcilfatrick, said Rubicon Grove in Port Sorell and Umina Park in Burnie remained under lockdown. Meercroft Care in Devonport went into lockdown on Monday September 11 after two cases were confirmed. Mount St Vincent in Ulverstone restricted access to visitors and community clients from last Friday after four cases of influenza were confirmed. Baptcare Karingal Community in Devonport has reported a number of patients with influenza to Public Health Tasmania and have “increased infection control measures” in place. Eliza Purton Home in Ulverstone, operated by Respect Aged Care (formerly Island Care), came out of lockdown on Sunday after four cases of influenza were detected. For the year to September 1, there were 1759 cases of influenza from Tasmania reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
September 12, 2017
Scope (Vic) Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Ryan in Conference Room E & F – Level 6 in Melbourne (Sekirski).
September 12, 2017
Trinity Aged Care Pty Ltd Trustee of N J Fung Family Trust T/A Fairlea Aged Care @ Harris Park and Fairlea Aged Care @ Rosehill has had its Fairlea Aged Care (Rosehill & Harris Park), NSWNMA, ANMF NSW Branch and HSU New South Wales Branch Enterprise Agreement 2017 application granted.
September 12, 2017
Up to 2000 Pacific Islanders will soon fly to Australia to plug labour gaps under a deal struck in Samoa. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull signed agreements with leaders from Kiribati, Tuvalu and Nauru on the sidelines of the annual Pacific Islands Forum. Pacific workers will be sent to rural and remote towns for up to three years to cover shortages in low and semi-skilled jobs. The deal expands on the longstanding, farming-based seasonal workers scheme to include industries such as tourism and aged care.
September 12, 2017
Barada Barna Aboriginal Corporation has a brace of (s.365 – Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal (consent arbitration)) with which it must contend. Commissioner Simpson in Fair Work Commission Central Plaza Two Level 14 66 Eagle Street Brisbane will hear the duo (Dargan/Roos).
September 12, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Linburn Nursing Home for its Linburn Nursing Home, NSWNMA, ANMF NSW Branch and HSU New South Wales Branch Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 8 September 2017.
September 12, 2017
An application by Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (s.217 – Application to vary an agreement to remove an ambiguity or uncertainty) will be determined by Commissioner Cribb in Court 6 – Level 6 in Melbourne.
September 12, 2017
The serial thug who attacked Wadeye nurse Vicki Myers in 2016 – his latest in a string of attacks on female nurses, teachers and service workers – has been jailed and will likely never again be allowed to live in the town. Edmund Tcherna was sentenced to two years and six months jail with no non-parole period over what Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Grant called the “disturbing assault” and a related property damage charge. He said the attack demonstrated an escalation of Tcherna’s pattern of unprovoked violence towards defenceless female service workers.
