Labor has accused the government of giving workers a summer holiday pay cut as it pushes ahead with plans to alter penalty rates. The government will push ahead with a suite of industrial relations reforms in 2021. It will also ...

Australia’s aged care workers are fighting for a 25 per cent wage increase in a landmark case. Should the Health Services Union’s (HSU) “historic” work value case bear fruit, all aged care workers’ pay would rise by at least $5 ...

Just under 14,000 New Zealanders have signed a petition calling for an end to the pay disparity between the country’s registered nurses who work in aged care and their counterparts in public hospitals. “Registered nurses who work in aged care ...

The aged care industry is big business. It accounts for approximately one per cent of Australia’s GDP, with revenues of over $20 billion and approximately 5 per cent annual growth. For the near quarter of a million aged care workers, this ...