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
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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