{"id":42442,"date":"2023-05-05T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=42442"},"modified":"2023-10-20T06:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T06:48:20","slug":"new-labour-agreement-for-aged-care-industry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/news\/new-labour-agreement-for-aged-care-industry-2","title":{"rendered":"New Labour Agreement for Aged Care Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In consultation with businesses and unions, the Government has announced a new Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement with the aim to promote increased recruitment and retention in the aged care workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the Agreement will be provided to employers who have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the relevant industry union. The agreement will be negotiated directly between unions and employers, promoting transparency and collaboration across the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Aged Care Labour Agreement settings have been designed to strike a balance between the opportunities migration can facilitate to build a workforce while recognising the vulnerabilities faced by workers on temporary sponsored visas,\u201d said the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Giles.<\/p>\n<p>The Agreement provides additional incentives for employers to attract workers, including an expedited two-year pathway to permanent residency. In addition, ongoing business and union engagement will promote transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Employers can apply for an Aged Care Labour Agreement immediately. These applications, as well as the associated visa applications, will be processed by the Department of Home Affairs as a matter of priority.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the announcement, the Minister for Aged Care, Anika Wells advised \u201cWe are continuing to build a skilled aged care workforce which from 1 July will receive a historic 15 per cent pay rise to the award wage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For further information, please email <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:aisupport@absoluteimmigration.com\"><strong>aisupport@absoluteimmigration.com<\/strong><\/a> <strong>to arrange an online consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In consultation with businesses and unions, the Government has announced a new Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement with the aim to promote increased recruitment and retention in the aged care workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[11,122],"class_list":["post-42442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-aged-care-industry","tag-labour-agreement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}