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The devastating impact of aged care workers being banned from two jobs has been revealed in major meetings of SA aged care workers in the last two days.
“We are seeing members who face…
Hasty moves to stop aged care workers from working in multiple aged care facilities in Queensland threaten to hinder efforts to combat the pandemic, United Workers Union Aged Care Director Carolyn Smith said…
PANDEMIC FAILURES IN AGED CARE REVEALED IN SURVEY; WORKERS FEEL ‘UNPREPARED, UNTRAINED, UNSAFE’
Shocking gaps in coronavirus preparations by aged care providers have been revealed in a new national survey of more than 1000…
Statement attributable to Jannette Armstrong, executive director, United Workers Union farms, regarding recent Victoria-NSW border stops and turn backs of workers on the Seasonal Worker Program:
This ban is discriminatory, unfair, and unhelpful. Coronavirus…
The following letter was sent to employers on 17 July 2020:
Dear Director
Re: Aged Care Retention Bonus
I am writing on behalf of members who have raised concerns about the retention bonus being paid to…
Today the Morrison Government will announce the fate of JobKeeper and JobSeeker with even more workers set to miss out.
In this second phase of the wage subsidy programs workers cannot afford to…
A major national survey of hospitality workers has revealed how COVID-19 ripped wide open the rotten foundations on which the hospitality industry is built, with the hospitality union vowing to use the Federal…
One of Australia’s largest Aged Care providers has agreed to pay staff two weeks of special “Covid19 leave” if they or their close family have to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus.
The…
The Federal Government has belatedly recognised the importance of an overworked and understaffed workforce in dedicating funding directly to aged carers, the United Workers Union said today.
“The challenge for the Federal Government is…
New restrictions on visitors to aged care facilities represent sensible steps toward addressing the impact of coronavirus on the country’s most vulnerable citizens, United Workers Union said today.
The union’s National Aged Care Director…