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NEWSBOGUS QANTAS ENGINEER TIMOTHY LESLIE McCORMACK SENT TO JAIL A Pathological liar who faked his way into an aircraft engineer's job with Qantas has been sentenced to a maximum three years and five months in prison...Read Full Article ................................................................................................. NSW RECRUITMENT COMPANY TO PAY BIG DAMAGES BILL OVER REFERENCING FAILURE A New South Wales recruitment company has lost a bid to have a $160k damages award overturned, in a long-running legal dispute with a former client over its failure to properly reference a candidate...Read Full Article ................................................................................................. AVOIDING THE BAD APPLES Many financial planning firms continue to rely on the good faith of an applicant's claims on resumes and application forms....Read Full Article ................................................................................................. GOVERNMENT WON'T RUSH INTO PRIVACY CHANGES FOR EMPLOYEE RECORDS The Federal Government has signalled it will defer consideration of the contentious Australian Law Reform Commission recommendations which would effectively introduce a range of new privacy restrictions on employee records..... ................................................................................................. AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE PAY JAYANT PATEL $60K FOR LIVING COSTS THE Queensland Government has set aside $60,000 for the "initial" living expenses of accused Bundaberg surgeon Jayant Patel, but the final tab could well be higher..... ................................................................................................. QANTAS UNQUALIFIED SAFETY MAN An unqualified engineer allegedly performed nearly 2000 maintenance jobs on Qantas airplanes over 10 months, a court has been told.... ................................................................................................. HUDSON CASE ILLUSTRATES GROWING LITIGATION RISK OVER CANDIDATE RECOMMENDATIONS A dispute between leading law firm McMahons and Hudson has highlighted a growing area of litigation between recruitment companies and clients over candidate recommendations..... ................................................................................................. FORMER DIRECTOR OF NEWCASTLE-BASED INVESTMENT COMANY FOUND GUILTY A Newcastle man was today found guilty by a Sydney District Court jury of fraud in relation to the arrangement of a $320,000 loan for an unemployed woman..... ................................................................................................. ASIC TEAMS WITH INDUSTRY ON REFERENCE-CHECKING INITIATIVE FOR FINANCIAL ADVISORS Chairman of ASIC, Mr Tony D’Aloisio and the Chief Executive Officer of Standards Australia, Mr John Tucker, today jointly launched a new handbook, Reference Checking in the Financial Services Industry, which provides employers with a reference-checking framework that can be applied to financial advisers..... ................................................................................................. WESTPAC EX-MANAGER JAILED FOR STEALING $4M A former Westpac Bank manager in Sydney has been jailed for up to eight years for taking nearly $4 million from customers' accounts to gamble on horse racing..... ................................................................................................. QANTAS SAFETY QUESTIONED AN unqualified Qantas mechanical engineer signed off on the safety of more than 1000 international flights in the past year without having a licence to do so..... ................................................................................................. OFFICIALS NOT TOLD OF CV FIB QUEENSLAND health authorities were not notified for more than a week that Mohammed Asif Ali had admitted embellishing part of his CV and keeping rubber stamps to forge supporting documents..... ................................................................................................. RUBBER STAMP LIES FOR DOCTOR A GOLD Coast doctor accused of lying about his employment history owned documents and rubber stamps used to authenticate medical credentials..... ................................................................................................. INTERN CASE 'NO COMPARISON TO JAYANT PATEL' Read Full Article ................................................................................................. FROGGY FRAUD BOSS JAILED Failed dotcom entrepreneur Karl Suleman has been sentenced by a Sydney judge to a minimum five-and-a-half years' jail on 26 fraud charges.... ................................................................................................. JUST HELPING YOURSELF Read Full Article ................................................................................................. WARNING BELLS RING ON FAKE DEGREES Read Full Article ................................................................................................. NHS CHIEF FAKED HIS CV TO LAND £115,000-A-YEAR JOB Read Full Article ................................................................................................. FAKE PSYCHIATRIST HEADS OVERSEAS Read Full Article ................................................................................................. BOGUS QUALIFICATIONS In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the availability of counterfeit and substandard university degrees. The trade in these 'fake degrees' is now proliferating on the internet, and occurs in every country, including ................................................................................................. |
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