ACTU President Ged Kearney said plans by the new Coalition Government to abandon wage increases for up to 350,000 workers in aged care and childcare was in direct conflict with Tony Abbott’s commitment that no worker would be worse off. “It is a betrayal by the Coalition of some of Australia’s lowest paid workers, in […]
Australia’s largest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has expressed disappointment that the new Coalition Government plans to walk away from historic wage reforms for the low-paid aged care workforce. “This is just so mean-spirited,” said ANMF Federal Secretary, Lee Thomas. “Aged care nurses and workers have been abandoned by the incoming […]
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The Coalition’s Aged Care Policy shows major cuts to funding and no guaranteed wages for aged care nurses. In the first election debate on 11 August 2013, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said: “I accept that it (the Government’s Living Longer, Living Better aged care reforms) was quite a detailed set of changes … We have […]
The federal Liberal and Nationals policy of further deregulating funding to nursing homes means tens of thousands of NSW aged care nurses face reduced pay under a Coalition government, the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) said today. Tony Abbott and the Federal Coalition have said they will do away with the current wage supplement, […]
At Wednesday night’s third election debate, Coalition leader Tony Abbott said the delivery of improved wages for aged care workers should not be achieved through enterprise bargaining and should be put into a “general pool” of aged care funding instead. An enterprise bargaining agreement is the only way to legally guarantee that employers pass the […]
Unions fear low-paid workers in the aged care sector will miss out on pay rises secured by the Labor Government under Tony Abbott’s plans to give the money intended for workers direct to providers. Enterprise agreements were the best way to ensure the money flowed direct to workers and was not simply pocketed by employers, […]
Quality Aged Care Action Group Inc. (QACAG) is a NSW-based group that includes residents in aged care, relatives, friends and carers, nurses and retired nurses, and other community members committed to aged care. This is their response to two reports on ABC’s Lateline of 15-16 July. Older people are caught in the middle of an […]
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