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The Health Services Union is launching a ‘work value’ case in the Fair Work Commission, with the aim of delivering aged care workers a wage increase of at least $5 an hour – the equivalent of around a 25 per cent increase. The HSU will argue working in the aged care sector has become...
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This year, the last group of Stolen Generations survivors, also known as Forgotten Australians or care leavers, became eligible for aged care services but their history of institutionalisation poses a unique set of requirements from aged care providers and carers.
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Eastern Health has explained the payments being delayed was down to an administrative error and that the situation will be rectified in the upcoming pay cycle. However, employees in private hospitals have vocalised their frustration at not being eligible for the payment.
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