Sunshine Coast Independent Living Service has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to answer before Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers (James).
November 5, 2018
The Community and Public Sector Union and the Department of Human Services will argue the respective merits of a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Simpson in his chambers in Brisbane.
November 5, 2018
Spastic Centre of South Australia will answer a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) claim before Fair Work Commissioner Platt in his Adelaide chambers (Smith).
November 1, 2018
Greenleaf Care Plus will face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic today (Regan).
November 1, 2018
A man has been charged after allegedly sexually abusing a foster child who was in his care numerous times over a four-year period. Earlier this year, Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad detectives began investigating after they received reports a 15-year-old boy had been sexually assaulted by his carer. The boy was given alternate care at that time. Following investigations, detectives arrested a 31-year-old man at Burwood police station just before 10.30am on Tuesday. The man was charged with persistent sexual abuse of a child, three counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a person aged 10-14, aggravated sexual intercourse with a person aged 14-16, and indecent assault of a person under 16 years of age. Police will allege in court the man sexually assaulted the boy numerous times while the boy was in his care in Sydney’s west between 2014 and 2018. Refused bail, the man will appear at Burwood Local Court on Wednesday. Police inquiries are continuing.
October 31, 2018
An application for termination of the Homecare Plus (a division of The Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of SA Inc) Casual Support Worker, Casual Administrative and Casual Emergency Support Worker Enterprise Agreement 2011 (s.225 – Application for termination of an enterprise agreement after its nominal expiry date) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Platt in his Adelaide chambers.
October 31, 2018
Ozcare will answer a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Deputy President Asbury in Hearing Room 1 in Brisbane today (Rhind).
October 31, 2018
A disability worker who allegedly threatened to poison, burn and potentially drown a vulnerable client while masking the abuse as an accident may still be employed in the system because police chose not to investigate the matter, a disability advocate says. Principal Community Visitor Maurice Corcoran made the startling claim in his 2017/18 Disability Services Annual Report, which has been tabled in State Parliament. The revelations have prompted Police Minister Corey Wingard to seek answers from Police Commissioner Grant Stevens. Mr Corcoran said the family of a young man with an intellectual disability, who was living at an unnamed SA-supported accommodation facility, had raised concerns about a menacing letter they allegedly received from a staff member at the care home. The letter was one of a number of allegations, including that the man was taken to a topless waitress restaurant. He said the letter was reportedly prompted by a mistaken belief that the family had complained about another staff member. “The family found a very disturbing and threatening letter that was left in their letterbox addressed to them and allegedly from a staff member who blamed them for the site manager being moved,” Mr Corcoran said. “The letter went on to state that ‘the staff who are affected by this are angry and pissed off, which puts your nephew at risk’. “It went further, detailing forms of harm that could be applied to the client while masked as an accident and included the following: Food … poison; medication … wrong; shampoo … what’s in the bottle — acid?; how well does he swim?; going through the windscreen … seatbelt unclipped.” Mr Corcoran said the letter finished with a “final chilling statement”. “(It read) ‘This little piglet is going to be abused with cruelty violence … regularly and repeatedly’,” he said. Mr Corcoran said, “as a social worker for over 30 years, this letter is one of the worst that I have seen in terms of the threats to abuse with cruelty and violence, and all because of some misconception that the family had complained about a staff member”. He immediately contacted the Department of Human Services’s critical incident team director, expressing concern for the young man and urging the director to accompany the family to a police station to report the incident. The service provider placed extra staff in the care house to ensure the client was safe. Mr Corcoran said neither the police nor the department investigated the matter, meaning the author could still be working with people with a disability. “I do need to express deep disappointment and concern that this incident was not investigated by police nor the department’s critical incident team,” he said.
