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Epworth Health Care has been served with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) by ex-staff member Naicker.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by St Vincent’s Private Hospitals Limited T/A Mater Hospital Sydney and St Vincent’s Private Community Hospital Griffith for its Mater Hospital North Sydney and St Vincent’s Private Community Hospital Griffith Nurses’ and Midwives’ Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra on 31 July 2017.

Bidgerdii Community Health Service has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) on its plate (VanDenBrink).

Nib health funds ltd has a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) to defend before Commissioner Saunders at level 3, 237 Wharf Road, Newcastle at 10am (Smith).

Murray House Aged Care’s Sidney Duckett is retiring. Having been at the helm of the Wentworth-based aged care facility for the past 10 years, Mr Duckett has seen several expansions and refurbishments of the not-for-profit health service as he plans to cap off a 50-year career.

The Paraplegic & Quadriplegic Association of South Australia Inc will face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) launched by an ex-staffer (Scholz) before Commissioner Platt in his Adelaide chambers at 2pm.

A 15-year-old girl picked up a long glass shard from a shattered photograph frame and slashed her youth worker across the neck. But in sentencing her for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, a judge has found the girl was not the only one to blame. District Court Judge Martin Sides has found “significant moral culpability” on the part of the Sydney not-for-profit company providing the girl’s full-time care on behalf of the Minister for Family and Community Services. Run by former Wallaby Glen Ella, Guardian Youth Care has come under sustained scrutiny in recent months, facing accusations by the government of misappropriating nearly $20 million. The girl convicted of the wounding charge, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had a history of mental illness including post-traumatic stress disorder.

A shamed Bupa care home worker caught spraying deodorant in the face of a frail grandmother with severe dementia has been jailed for four weeks. But Susan Draper, who was fired after working at the home for 17 years, was caught when the pensioner’s worried relatives rigged up a camera in her room after finding bruises on her body last August. She could be heard laughing with a colleague as she sprayed a can of Impulse around a foot from Mrs Boylan’s face. The judge was played footage of the incident, which showed the victim – who is immobile and incontinent – pleading “stop it”.