The Health Services Union and Providing All Living Supports (PALS) Inc have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) matter for hearing before Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in Court 5 and Conference Room D – Level 6 in Melbourne today.
October 16, 2018
Safe Places Community Services Limited will defend a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his chambers (Watson).
October 16, 2018
The man accused of murdering a mental health worker by stabbing her in the neck at a Perth home is likely to remain in a psychiatric facility until at least the end of the month. Jacqueline Lynn Francis, 50, was allegedly attacked on October 6 in Rockingham then drove to a nearby Dome cafe for help. She was rushed to Fiona Stanley Hospital, where she died. Shannon Scott Westerman Smith, 37, made his second appearance in Rockingham Magistrates Court on Monday charged with murdering the mother of three. He was remanded in custody under a hospital order until his appearance in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on October 31.
October 15, 2018
An application for approval of the Woodbury Autism Education and Research Limited ABA Therapist Agreement 2018 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is with Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney at 3pm.
October 15, 2018
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.
