Communities@Work is set to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic in his ACT chambers at 2pm (Abosede).
October 12, 2018
An ambulance has been damaged after paramedics were targeted in a rock attack in Perth’s south earlier this week – in what was one of two orchestrated attacks. The ambulance officers were returning to base after finishing a job on Monday night when a motorcycle approached them flashing its lights. The paramedics pulled over, assuming there was a medical issue, when the pillion passenger threw a large rock at the ambulance, smashing a side window. It happened about 11pm on Kulija Road in Baldivis. Thankfully there were no patients on board and neither of the paramedics weren’t hurt.
October 11, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Townsend House Inc and Royal South Australian Deaf Society Inc T/A Can:Do Group for its Townsend House Inc and Royal South Australian Deaf Society Inc Enterprises Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne on 9 October 2018.
October 10, 2018
A social worker who sat on a teen and punched a co-worker in the face is now working at an Auckland primary school. Uila Esera was charged with conduct unbecoming of a social worker and de-registered over the incidents, which took place while he was working at the Whakatakapokai Care and Protection Residence in 2013. The residence is a secure facility for young people, run by Oranga Tamariki – then called Child, Youth and Family – in south Auckland’s Manurewa. A decision by the Social Workers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal, released this week, said the incidents showed Esera had “a quickness to become angry and a concerning resort to aggression and violence when frustrated”. He appeared to “lack insight into the gravity of his conduct” and showed a “pattern of violent behaviour”, the decision said. Keren Williams, a residential youth worker at Whakatakapokai, stated the altercation between Esera and the 16-year-old girl began following an argument over ice cream, the decision said. When the teen yelled at Esera, he went in for a “one man restraint” without any warning, Williams said. She classed the interaction between Esera and the teen as “the most violent that I’ve witnessed”. CCTV footage from the incident showed Esera grabbing the girl first by her wrist, then around her neck and chest, the decision said. She fell to the floor, and he sat on top of her chest to hold her down. Esera did not dispute using physical force against the girl but said he acted in “self-defence” after the girl punched him out of nowhere, the decision said. After the incident, Esera was dismissed from his job at Whakatakapokai.
October 10, 2018
2Connect, Youth and Community INC is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Conference Rooms 11D – 11E – Level 11 in Sydney (Onuoha).
October 8, 2018
Police have charged a man with murdering a social worker who died after stumbling into a cafe in Perth’s southern suburbs with serious neck injuries. It is alleged the 50-year-old woman, who was reportedly working in the hours leading up to the attack, was stabbed in the neck at a Rockingham unit on Saturday night. She then sought help at a nearby Dome Cafe on Kent Street. Cafe staff helped administer first-aid to the woman before she was taken to Fiona Stanley Hospital, where she later died. Police said Homicide Squad detectives today charged a 37-year-old man from Rockingham with one count of murder. The man was arrested on Saturday night and is set to face Rockingham Magistrates Court later today.
October 8, 2018
A specialist GP who lost his licence to practice explained that he never received training about regulations concerning the prescribing of S8 and S4 drugs The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) has won a case against a GP from Taree, New South Wales, after alleging professional misconduct relating to 19 patients. It was alleged that the medical practitioner, who gained his Fellowship from the RACGP in 2013, had prescribed drugs of addiction to 19 drug dependent patients in circumstances where he held no authority to do so. The S8 and S4D drugs that formed part of the allegation included fentanyl, alprazolam, temazepam, diazepam, buprenorphine, codeine phosphate, codeine phosphate linctus, oxycodone, morphine, hydromorphone, pethidine and anabolic steroids.
October 8, 2018
LiveBetter Services Limited will face a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) in front of Fair Work Commissioner Simpson in Hearing Room 2 in Brisbane at 10am (United Voice).
