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The Brain Injury Association of Queensland is challenging a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by ex-staffer (Leatham).

Civic Disability Services Ltd is being challenged by a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Riordan in the Fair Work Commission Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney at 8am (Mallet).

The Brain Injury Association of Queensland is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) instigated by Leatham.

Quad Services Pty Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner McKenna in the Fair Work Commission Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney at 2pm (Cohen).

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Grow for its Grow Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Saunders in Sydney today.

A de facto carer who instructed two intellectually disabled people to participate in sex acts while he filmed them has been jailed for at least two-and-a-half years. The 55-year-old-man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was found guilty of two counts of rape and two counts of indecent filming, and pleaded guilty to threatening another carer who found out about the abuse. South Australia’s District Court heard the man had been a de facto carer to a young intellectually disabled woman.

Civic Disability Services Ltd is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staffer (Mallet).

A former nursing home boss who paid herself $20,000 from the bank account of a disabled patient is back working in aged care after a six-month suspension. VCAT documents reveal Ruth Fields, formerly known as Ruth Welling, manipulated an intellectually disabled wheelchair-bound woman to make herself the ­patient’s legal financial guardian. Mrs Fields, who was chief executive of AdventCare at the time of the incident, has returned to work at a Cheltenham nursing home in an office role.