Workers at Echuca’s Bupa Aged Care home are being encouraged to vote down their latest pay offer. The proposal, which includes a 2.3 per cent wage increase, will be put to workers at Bupa’s 26 Victorian nursing homes today. But the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation claims the offer provides no improvements beyond the pay rise and is urging staff to vote against the proposal. The foundation has set up a large billboard outside the Fehring Ln facility in recent days in an attempt to sway employees ahead of the ballot. It claims Bupa is one of Victoria’s lowest paying aged care groups. Victoria branch secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick said Bupa nurses and personal care workers earned thousands of dollars less each year than colleagues doing the same work.
May 25, 2017
A s.185 (Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) by The Northcott Society has been approved in a 46 page written decision handed down by Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 24 May 2017. The entity operates in the social, community, home care and disability services sector.
May 24, 2017
A s.604 (Appeal of decisions) application by Stif Sekirski against a previous decision in favour of Scope (Vic) Ltd has been successful and the matter will now be reheard.
May 23, 2017
Life Without Barriers has a second matter (s.372 – Application to deal with other contravention disputes) alive at 10am (Troxell).
May 23, 2017
Life Without Barriers has a (s.739 – Application to deal with a dispute) being heard by Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers at 2.30pm.
May 22, 2017
Authorities were warned a schizophrenic and intellectually disabled woman had been sexually assaulted at a psychiatric hospital months before she fell pregnant there. The woman’s partner yesterday said that before the pregnancy, she had complained of being groped, pinned against walls and stalked by fellow patients at The Park Centre for Mental Health at Wacol, in Brisbane’s west. He provided documents showing he had raised concerns about her safety in a mixed-gender ward. “In the last five months, she has been sexually assaulted once, assaulted by other patients four times,” he wrote to the West Moreton Hospital and Health Service four months before the pregnancy. “You keep young female patients in … locked wards with male patients and expose them to sexual assaults.”
May 12, 2017
Quad Services Pty Ltd is once again defending a s.392 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Saunders at Coffs Harbour Court House 2 Beryl Street Coffs Harbour (Cohen).
May 3, 2017
Quad Services Pty Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Saunders on Level 3, 237 Wharf Road in Newcastle (Cohen).
