Author: eleanor

Reproductive Health Leave

Reproductive health issues can affect anybody, at any stage of their working life. Normal leave entitlements often aren’t enough, and people end up having to take unpaid leave, and jeopardising their jobs.

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Support Disability Support Workers

The recent review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has found that skilled disability support workers (DSWs) are either being pushed out, or are burning out, due to poor working conditions and low wages.

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Changing Aged Care

For too long, aged care in Australia has relied on the goodwill of an undervalued, underpaid and insecure workforce made up mostly of women.

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