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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Health Department</name>
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        <heading>HEALTH DEPARTMENT</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="631" kind="question">
        <name>Mr HAMILTON-SMITH</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Waite</electorate>
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          <question date="2012-07-17" qonNum="106">
            <name>HEALTH DEPARTMENT</name>
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        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000890">106 <by role="member" id="631">Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite)</by> (17 July 2012).  With respect to 2012-13 Budget Paper 4, vol. 3, p. 65—</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000891">How many complaints were made in 2010-11 and 2011-12 in the health portfolio regarding—</text>
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          <item sublevel="2">(a)&amp;#x9;bullying;</item>
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        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000893">
          <item sublevel="2">(b)&amp;#x9;sexual harassment;</item>
        </text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000894">
          <item sublevel="2">(c)&amp;#x9;unfair dismissal and removal from any appointment or position; and</item>
        </text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000895">
          <item sublevel="2">(d)&amp;#x9;how many employees have been granted special leave on the basis of any of these or related issues?</item>
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      <talker role="member" id="535" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Ageing</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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          <question date="2012-07-17" qonNum="106">
            <name>HEALTH DEPARTMENT</name>
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        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000896">
          <by role="member" id="535">The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts):</by>  I am advised that in SA Health:</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000897">(a)&amp;#x9;Bullying</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000898">In 2010-11, 51 Workers Compensation Claims (bullying) were lodged.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000899">In 2011-12, 59 Workers Compensation Claims (bullying) were lodged.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000900">In 2010-11, 39 OHSW Incident Forms were lodged.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000901">In 2011-12, 49 OHSW Incident Forms were lodged.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000902">(b)&amp;#x9;Sexual Harassment </text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000903">In 2010-11, three Workers Compensation Claims were lodged.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000904">In 2011-12, one Workers Compensation Claim was lodged.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000905">In 2010-11, four OHSW Incident Forms were lodged.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000906">In 2011-12, four OHSW Incident Forms were lodged.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000907">(c)&amp;#x9;Unfair Dismissal </text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000908">In 2010-11, 10 Unfair Dismissal Claims were lodged with the Industrial Relations Commission of South Australia.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000909">In 2011-12, 12 Unfair Dismissal Claims were lodged with the Industrial Relations Commission of South Australia.</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000910">(d)&amp;#x9;Special Leave</text>
        <text id="20121016d623da02731a473c90000911">From 2010 to 2012, there were 22 Unfair Dismissal Claims lodged with the Industrial Relations Commission of South Australia. Of these employees, 10 were suspended with pay prior to the dismissal.</text>
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