ACWIC CEO Louise O’Neill sat down last week with Federal Labor's new assistant minister for health and aged care, Ged Kearney, to discuss the current crisis in aged care and what the Govt is doing to right the ship. BIANCA ROBERTS caught up with O'Neill for a chat about the meeting.
The nation’s gender pay gap could be diminishing, with data released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealing that total wages being paid to women is rising at a faster rate than total wages being paid to men.
OPAN is calling upon sector stakeholders to work together to ensure older people are not adversely affected by changes to the conditions of aged care workers that came into effect on July 1.
For Giovanni Siano, owner and director of home care provider Home Instead, the short-notice from Government on the indexation rate expected for subsidies covering the 2022/2023 financial year is hugely problematic. He fears that without a clear idea how much additional funding will be available, older persons receiving care, as well as the workers supporting them, will suffer as providers conservatively brace for the new financial year. BIANCA ROBERTS reports
The Fair Work Commission's decision to increase the minimum wage by 5.2 per cent was the correct one, despite the concerns raised by business groups, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.
The Health Services Union has commenced a precedent-setting legal push to prevent aged care operators slashing pay by engaging catering staff under the hospitality award through labour hire operators.
The Fair Work Commission is now considering a claim by unions to increase award rates in aged care to an average of $29 an hour. But that won’t fix the deeper problem - that heavily-feminised occupations are undervalued. Labor is promising to make gender pay equity an objective of the Fair Work Act.
As wages drop on the back of a two-decade high spike in inflation, a growing number of frontline workers across Australia are taking action, demanding increased pay to keep pace with the rising cost of living.
Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Richard Colbeck has today spoken about the progress made by the Morrison Government after the handing down of the final report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in July 2021, a process of reform he says he is keen to continue after the election. BIANCA ROBERTS reports
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