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Caring counts: Report of the Inquiry into the Aged Care Workforce
“Carers are completely undervalued. We do a job that no-one sees. We are a vulnerable workforce looking after vulnerable people.”
Aged care worker
The Commission’s report of the inquiry into the equal employment opportunity issues in the aged care workforce has been published. The inquiry team considered workforce issues raised by both employees and employers in the aged care sector when developing the report’s final recommendations.
“In my time as EEO Commissioner there has seldom been the degree of unanimity about a work-related issues than there is about the low pay of carers,” said Judy McGregor.
- Read Caring counts: Report of the Inquiry into the Aged Care Workforce (Word 3Mb or PDF)
- Foreword
- Recommendations
- NEON (including link to HTML version)
Foreword and recommendations:
- New Zealand Sign Language – foreword and recommendations
- Caring counts – foreword and recommendations Maori translation (Word 320Kb)
- Caring counts – foreword and recommendations Hindi translation (Word 180Kb)
- Caring counts – foreword and recommendations Simplified Chinese (Word 600Kb)
- Caring counts – foreword and recommendations Traditional Chinese translation (Word 800Kb)
- Caring counts – foreword and recommendations Samoan translation (Word 824Kb)
- Caring counts – foreword and recommendations Tongan translation (Word 180kb)
Media releases
- Caring Counts report says sorting caregivers’ wages affordable and necessary (May 2012)
- Commission begins inquiry into EEO issues in aged care sector (August 2011)
