NEWS-HR

An application by Ellis (s.66M – application to deal with a dispute about the right to request casual conversion) will be reviewed by Fair Work Commissioner O’Neill (video using Microsoft Teams) in Melbourne.

Optimum Health Solutions (Goulburn) Pty Ltd T/A Optimum Health Solutions will defend a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Matheson (video using Microsoft Teams) in Sydney (Adams).

Challenge Community Services is facing a s.372 (application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner Ryan (video using Microsoft Teams) in Sydney (Pawley).

Ambulance Victoria is defending a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Bissett (by telephone AEDT) in Melbourne (Hance).

The chief digital officer of the city of Melbourne has announced her move to aged care provider St. Vincent’s Health Australia. In a social media post, Michelle Fitzgerald, who is also the city council’s customer and digital general manager, said she is filling in the same position of CDO at the hospital group. Fitzgerald has held her post at the council for the past six years. She had led its smart city office in her first four years and eventually took on the technology and digital innovation director role from 2019. She had previously worked as a partner at accounting firm PwC for over a decade. The digital chief said she is looking forward to work with her new colleagues in “[scaling] up digital and data solutions to benefit our patients, residents, staff and partners across our hospitals and aged care facilities”.

The Health Services Union (051V) and Southern Cross Care (Tas) Inc. T/A Southern Cross Care are debating the merits of a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Wilson (video using Microsoft Teams) in Melbourne.

UnitingCare NSWACT has to deal with a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) set down for hearing before Commissioner Riordan (by telephone AEDT NSW Time) in Sydney (Brookes).

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (145V) and ACT Government T/A Canberra Health Services will deal with a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Deputy President Dean by telephone AEDT (ACT Time) in the ACT.