Healthcare Australia Pty Ltd is facing a s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy (Sommer).
August 9, 2017
Peninsula Village Limited & Evergreen Life Care Limited and Others have a (s.576(s)(aa) – Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) set for hearing by Deputy President Booth at Evergreen Life care 22-32 Yallambee Ave in Est Gosford NSW 2250.
August 9, 2017
A respected Melbourne doctor and academic has gone to the Supreme Court over claims of bullying and financial impropriety within the powerful Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Professor Paul Komesaroff — a Victorian Australian of the Year finalist in 2014 — has accused his fellow RACP board members of blocking his access to a raft of documents which he claims may also detail possible irregularities with the college’s last presidential elections. Prof Komesaroff chaired RACP’s ethics committee for 18 years, is president-elect of its adult medicine division and was elected to the college’s board last year. He alleges his access to the documents has been blocked by board factions and RACP president Catherine Yelland. In an affidavit filed with the court, Prof Komesaroff says he made repeated oral and written requests since August last year to access the documents. Prof Komesaroff says he made repeated oral and written requests to access the documents. The affidavit says the documents sought include: AT “least four” whistleblower reports, and a compensation settlement agreement with one; INVESTIGATION reports into the whistleblower claims, which Prof Komesaroff believes includes alleged bullying and potential financial misconduct; LETTERS and communications about the conduct of the 2016 election, including a letter of complaint from Professor Brooks and others; CORRESPONDENCE relating to a resolution put to RACP members in May to replace the existing rule that enables 100 members to demand a general meeting of the college be called with a 5 per cent quota, or about 1,200 of RACP’s 24,000 members. COSTINGS of two extraordinary general meetings in December 2013 and July 2015 and a discontinued general meeting and resulting court action in 2014; In a letter to CEO, Linda Smith, whose contract Prof Komesaroff claims he has also been denied access, he claims he alleged the board was driven by factions, some of which appear committed to “frustrating my inquiries and investigations to ascertain certain aspects of RACP’s internal management”, and as a result he anticipated, “regrettably”, having to launch legal proceedings. He claims RACP’s lawyers alleged he wanted to access the documents to pursue legal action that he was already determined to take. Prof Komesaroff denies any present intention to use the documents to institute legal proceedings, claiming he seeks them in order to discharge his duties as a RACP director. He has asked the court for a declaration he is entitled to them.
August 9, 2017
Bupa Aged Care Australia Pty Ltd is set to run a s.604 (Appeal of decisions) before the Fair Work full bench in room 15-1 – level 15 in Sydney at 2pm (Tavassoli).
August 9, 2017
Hunter Primary Care has named Brenda Ryan as its new chief executive officer.
August 9, 2017
The Australian Workers Union and Ramsay Health Care are in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Simpson in hearing room 4 in Brisbane at 2pm.
August 9, 2017
A 38-year-old man charged with the murder of another person at the Gold Coast University Hospital on Sunday has been remanded in custody. Paul John Conoley was charged with murder after allegedly being involved in an altercation with Townsville man, John Francis Imber, in a bathroom at the hospital on the morning of Friday August 4. It is believed Conoley was a patent at the hospital but Mr Imber was visiting for another reason when they got into a fight about 8am. Mr Imber, 53, passed on Sunday after sustaining head injuries.
August 9, 2017
Resthaven Incorporated is set to defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Commissioner Platt in his Adelaide chambers (O’Hara).
