Spectrum Community Focus Limited is to face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in hearing room 11 – 4 – level 4 in Sydney (Valenzuela).
June 13, 2017
Sunnyfield Disability Services & Loumbos are facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Commissioner Johns in his Sydney chambers (Simmonds).
June 8, 2017
Challenge Community Services is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Vice President Hatcher in his Sydney chambers (Barnden).
June 7, 2017
Yooralla is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) lodged by a staff member (Shannon).
June 2, 2017
TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT – misconduct – ss.394, 400, 604 Fair Work Act 2009 – appeal – Full Bench – application for relief from unfair dismissal dismissed at first instance – Commission found dismissal was not harsh, unjust or unreasonable – appellant sought permission to appeal – Coal & Allied and GlaxoSmithKline applied – Full Bench discovered parties consented to have matter dealt with on the papers but involved contested facts – respondent also submitted due to security concerns associated with the appellant’s conduct the Commission was not required to hold a hearing or a conference – Full Bench found as the matter involved disputed facts the Commission had a statutory obligation to conduct a conference or hold a hearing in relation to those contested facts – Full Bench further noted a security concern was not a basis to avoid a hearing or a conference – permission to appeal granted – Full Bench found the relevant contested facts were a critical issue in the proceedings – public interest test enlivened – appeal upheld – decision at first instance quashed – matter to be reheard. Appeal by Sekirski against decision of Gregory C of 2 March 2017 [[2017] FWC 1200] Re: Scope (Vic) Ltd
May 26, 2017
Bellarine Community Health has announced the new man to take on its top job following a three-month search to replace outgoing boss John Fendyk. Shane Dawson, a former chief executive of Wide Bay Medicare Local in Queensland and more recently a consultant for several disability agencies in the NDIS rollout, is set to start as the under-fire organisation’s new chief executive at the end of July.
May 26, 2017
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.
