aged care - Health Workers Union

MEDIA RELEASE: Undervaluation of ‘indirect carers’ in Fair Work Commission Stage 3 – Aged Care Work Value case

The Health Workers Union (HWU) has today written to the Prime Minister and Federal Health Minister calling on the Commonwealth Government to reject the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) shocking undervaluation of ‘indirect carers’ in aged care and fund the gap between the insulting 3% increase allocated to ‘indirect carers’ and long awaited and justly deserved increase of […]

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The hand that feeds you

The hands that feed you, they say. And here I am, feeding the elderly, the frail, the forgotten. My name is Evelyn, and I’ve been a cleaner in 2 Aged Care facilities for the past one and a half decades. I’ve seen it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I’ve watched as residents