Fair pay and conditions for aged care workers so that their work is respected and paid the same as health workers in public hospitals

The average hourly rate for an aged care health care assistant is $14.50 per hour. A health care assistant who works in a public hospital gets $18.46. That’s not fair! And it is even more unfair that the government pays the wages of both employees!

Both aged care providers and public hospitals get their funding from the Ministry of Health. All this money comes from the government.

We do not accept that caring for the elderly should be done on the cheap. In other sectors we have successfully campaigned that people doing similar work get paid similar wages. Aged care needs the same consideration and opportunity.