Aged care workers have showered each other in streamers and struggled to hold back their tears after hearing they would receive a big pay rise to ensure they could carry out their work with the “dignity” older Australia ns deserve. About 400,000 workers will receive a wage boost of up to 28 per cent after the Fair Work Commission delivered a landmark decision for the sector.
It comes after close to four years of fighting after the Health Services Union lodged an application for a 25 per cent increase across the board in 2020. “These people aren’t just our friends ... these people are our family,” Mark Castieau, a retired aged-care chef and one of the original applicants, said on Friday. Personal carers are set to get an increase between 18.2 and 28.5 per cent, home care staff will get a rise between 15 and 26 per cent and there will be a 6.8 per cent boost for those involved in support services under the commission’s decision, which was delivered on Frida
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