Some 20,000 potential job openings for the elderly care sector in Australia may await Filipinos wishing to work as healthcare providers abroad.
However, the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) said the elderly care sector may need an injection of almost $500 million to close the wages gap and attract at least 20,000 nursing staff.
“The shortage of aged care nursing staff is already having a real impact, with independent analysis showing… nursing home residents are on average receiving just 22 minutes of care from a nurse each day,” ANF federal secretary Lee Thomas said in an article on the Nursing Careers Allied Health website.
“But one of the main reasons we can’t recruit and then retain aged care nurses is because of the significant wages gap experienced by aged care nursing staff across the country,” she said.
That is why the ANF is pushing for urgent funding for more nursing staff to address critical workforce issues, Thomas said.
She noted that aged care nurses are paid between $168 and $390 on average a week than nurses working in public hospitals.
Thomas pointed out that the aged care workforce needs to be tripled to cope with the demands of the nation’s ageing population. “Fixing aged care can’t wait — it has to happen now,” she said. — JE, GMA News
March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27: Earth Hour
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