The Community Accommodation and Respite Agency is facing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) lodged by Van Praet in Adelaide.
August 9, 2017
An application for approval of the Karden Disability Support Foundation Enterprise Agreement 2017 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Saunders.
August 9, 2017
A s.318 (Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and transferring employees) by Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology T/A Douglass Hanly Moir for its San Pathology Pty Limited Staff Enterprise Agreement 2015-2017 has been granted by Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 7 August 2017.
August 9, 2017
A norovirus outbreak has forced a Hervey Bay aged care home into lockdown. Almost half of the residents at the 97-bed Kirami Residential Aged Care had been struck down by the illness this week. About a dozen staff members were also being treated.
August 9, 2017
A 52-year-old woman who bit, spat and vomited on an off-duty police officer on a Qantas plane undoubtedly scared the passengers and pilot, according to the Mount Isa magistrate. The Mount Isa Magistrates Court heard that Tracey Proctor, formerly an aged care nurse, caused a disturbance when she was on Qantas flight 1782 between Brisbane and Mount Isa on the evening of Monday, May 22. Magistrate James Morton summarised that Proctor had several glasses of wine without trouble but during the “home stretch” of the flight became agitated and swore loudly. A passenger recorded the woman’s behaviour on a phone – studied by the magistrate. She had spat on an off-duty police officer, who had interceded and identified himself. The footage did not show this moment happening, the magistrate did note. The court heard that Proctor vomited and then wiped some of it on the officer’s leg. Qantas staff then used plastic handcuffs to restrain her. Proctor was filmed screaming and yelling phrases including “f—k off”, “you f—king dog”, “you’re s—t,” the magistrate said.
August 9, 2017
More than 200 clinicians working in public hospitals in Queensland have restrictions on their medical licences but health authorities have declined to reveal the Hospital and Health Service where they are employed.
August 9, 2017
Remote and regional nurses in WA have blown the whistle on what they say are atrocious work conditions, including systemic workplace bullying and patient violence. Four nurses spoke about work conditions in remote nurse posts and regional hospitals which they claim led to the suicide of three colleagues in the past eight months.
August 9, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Euroa Health Inc for its Euroa Health Inc and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and the Health Workers Union, Nurses and Allied Health Services Collective Agreement 2016 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 7 August 2017.
