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An application by Corporation of the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane – Centacare Administration Services (s.120 – Application to vary redundancy pay for other employment or incapacity to pay) will be reviewed by Fair Work Commissioner Booth in chambers in Brisbane.

APRA has announced the appointment of a new executive director of its policy and advice division. Renee Roberts will take on the role, after previously holding a range of senior leadership roles in the banking and insurance sectors. Roberts will leave her position as chief operating officer at QBE, which she has held since June 2018. Prior to that she was deputy chief executive and chief risk officer at the National Disability Insurance Agency and held a number of senior roles at the National Australia Bank on-and-off for over 25-years.

Former ACTU president and business lobbyist Martin Ferguson has been appointed by the Coalition to the Fair Work Commission’s annual minimum wage review expert panel for five years. Attorney-General Christian Porter said Mr Ferguson, a former federal ALP Cabinet Minister who works for the resources and tourism sector, would be joined by labour market academic Mark Wooden and Deloiite partner Adele Labine-Romain as new part-time members of the panel.

Warrina Innisfail & Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation have a s.576(2)(aa) (Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) awaiting adjudication by Fair Work Commissioner Spencer in chambers in Brisbane.

Specialist Diagnostic Services Pty Ltd is facing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Deputy President Beaumont in chambers in Perth (Sloss).

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Regis Aged Care Pty Ltd T/A Regis Aged Care for its Regis Aged Care Pty Ltd NSW Enterprise Agreement 2018 has been ratified by Fair Work Deputy President Masson in Melbourne on 11 March 2020.

The AMA (Victoria) Ltd & Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation and Alfred Health & Bendigo Health and Others have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) on foot before Deputy President Young in chambers in Melbourne.

An application for approval of the Ramsay Health Care (SA) & ANMF -SA Nursing Employees Enterprise Agreement 2020 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is set for hearing by Commissioner Platt in chambers in Adelaide.