NEWS HR
June 7, 2016
Sean Stowers has been appointed Chief Executive of Spectrum Care.
June 7, 2016
Dr Nightingale will step into the CMO role for the Canterbury District Health Board starting September 19.
May 26, 2016
A Filipino nurse who drove at more than 160kmh has been fined and disqualified from driving. Joel Paragas Ubando, 28, appeared before Judge Christina Cook in the Invercargill District Court on Tuesday. He admitted driving at a dangerous speed on the Southern Motorway, between Fairfield and Green Island, near Dunedin, on April 26. Judge Cook fined him $650 and disqualified him from driving for six months.
May 26, 2016
Kaikoura nurse manager Adrianne McNabb is retiring after 50 years in nursing.
May 24, 2016
Andrew Gaudin has accepted the role of Chief Executive of the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand.
May 19, 2016
The senior manager overseeing a multimillion-dollar building project at Dunedin Hospital has left for “family reasons”, and a project manager has been “seconded” from consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Southern District Health Board chief executive Carole Heatly said she accepted Peter Beirne’s resignation “with regret”.
May 6, 2016
A man has been awarded $5000 after the Employment Relations Authority found that he was unfairly fired from a job and discriminated against for his age and having Asperger’s Syndrome. Lichen Wang worked at east Auckland warehouse New World Market Ltd from December 2014 until January 2015 when he said he was dismissed. Wang took a claim of unjustifiable dismissal and discrimination against his former employer in the ERA. His former employer responded to the claims by saying Wang resigned voluntarily and denied discriminating against Wang. He began work on a trial period of two weeks, but after a week he was told he was needed to improve his work efficiency. Two weeks later, Wang’s personal belongings went missing from the staff kitchen. Wang became extremely upset at the situation and told the ERA at this point he was advised to take two days off work to recover. The company believed when Wang didn’t show up to work the following days he had decided to quit the position. Member of the Authority Eleanor Robinson said Wang had been unjustifiably dismissed and discriminated against. Robinson said New World Market Ltd had breached the Employment Relations Act by advertising the warehouse position for someone “50 years or below” and by telling Wang the company wanted to employ a person aged in their 40s. The authority was told in the hearing that one of the reasons Wang was dismissed was because of his emotional response to his property going missing.
May 6, 2016
A former kitchen worker at Timaru Hospital has been awarded more than $15,000 for failings by her employer, Spotless Facility Services. Spotless Facility Services must pay a former Timaru Hospital kitchen worker $15,500 for failing to protect her from workplace bullying. Anne MacKay resigned while on sick leave in August 2014. The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) says she quit because Spotless failed to investigate a joint complaint other workers were preparing against her and because of her fears of workplace bullying. In a newly-released determination, authority member David Appleton says a senior Spotless manager committed a “serious failing in his duty” when he told MacKay he knew nothing of the joint complaint and failed to promise an investigation. Another Spotless worker is now seeking compensation for bullying by a supervisor, Ms X.
