A flight crew member has been found “incapacitated” before starting a shift with Air Ambulance Victoria. The man was found in his car on Thursday according to a statement from operator Pel-Air, and it’s unclear whether he was drug or alcohol affected. The staff member has been stood down and Pel-Air has signalled increased drug and alcohol testing of flight crew.
August 24, 2017
Anglican Community Services has a s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy (Asher) up before Commissioner McKenna in hearing room 12-2 – level 12 in Sydney at 3.30pm.
August 24, 2017
The new Perth Children’s Hospital has suffered a further blow with another senior health bureaucrat overseeing the trouble-plagued hospital revealing he is moving on. PCH commissioning executive director Dr Gervase Chaney is the latest in a string of senior public servants who have recently left key roles within the WA Health Department.
August 24, 2017
San Carlo Homes for the Aged & Alleva and Others have a (s.576(2)(aa) – Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) before Commissioner Cribb on-site at San Carlo Italian Aged Care, 970 Plenty Road, South Morang VIC 3752 today.
August 24, 2017
Bidgerdii Community Health Service is set to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) from a staff member (VanDenBrink) before Commissioner Saunders in Court House Cnr East and Fitzroy Streets Rockhampton today.
August 24, 2017
A metropolitan council boss who urged an employee to waive a ratepayer’s parking fine “was not acting in a way that generates community trust and confidence”, the state’s public sector watchdog has found. Ombudsman Wayne Lines ruled Marion chief executive Adrian Skull breached his own council’s code of conduct after he advised an employee to waive a pensioner’s $253 expiation notice for parking in a bicycle lane.
August 24, 2017
The Department of Social Services will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) instigated by an ex-staffer (Larzabal) before Deputy President Kovacic in his ACT chambers today.
August 24, 2017
An elderly woman who died after spending the night in a near-freezing shipping container in Tasmania needed around the clock high-level care, an inquest has heard. Janet Mackozdi, 77, died of hypothermia in July 2010 while sleeping in the converted container at her daughter and son-in-law’s Mount Lloyd property. Five years later, Jassy Anglin and husband Michael Anglin were convicted of Ms Mackozdi’s manslaughter. An inquest into her death is examining broader issues of elder abuse and whether her family withheld care intentionally and depleted her money for their personal use. Today it heard from two health staff, one who gave an aged care assessment of Ms Mackozdi the year before her death after she’d fractured her neck. Social worker Merrilyn Orr found she needed “a high level of care” and assistance eating. Ms Orr said it was her opinion 24-hour care was required even after Ms Mackozdi’s neck brace was removed. One of Ms Mackozdi’s general practitioners spoke of the challenges her family would have faced in providing adequate at-home care. “I think it would have been a very, very difficult thing to do,” Dr Sujeewa Fernando said. Ms Mackozdi had dementia and mobility problems and weighed just 37kg when she died. She was placed in a bed in the shipping container on a July night in 2010 as the family’s dilapidated hut was full of boxes from moving house. It is estimated the temperature dropped to as low as 0.1C overnight. Her body was found the next morning. The Anglins drove her to Royal Hobart Hospital but initially claimed she had died on a road trip to Mount Field National Park. On Monday, Constable Nicholas Monk, said the converted shipping container had inch-wide gaps around the door and air from outside would have flowed in. Ms Mackozdi’s financial planners, as well as other doctors and family, are expected to give evidence at the inquest this week.
