Queensland Nurses’ Union of Employees has failed to ping Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd on a raft of alleged industrial law breaches in a log of claims in the federal court. The case covered pay and leave entitlements for public holidays – alleged contraventions of ss 44 and 116 of the Fair Work Act for failure to pay employees for public holidays – whether employees entitled to be paid for public holidays if not rostered on to work – meaning of ordinary hours of work – alleged contraventions of ss 44, 50, 89(1) and 90 of the Fair Work Act for wrongly recording employees as having taken leave on public holidays. The Honourable Justice Rangiah Ruled the union failed to demonstrate that Ramsay had contravened ss 44 or 50 of the FWA. “Accordingly, the application must be dismissed,” he ruled.
