Labour promises $4-an-hour pay rise for 65,000 care and support workers
In its 2026 fiscal plan, the Labour Party has committed $2.5 billion over four years to increase wages for 65,000 care and support workers by $4 an hour starting January 2027. This episode explores how the proposed $160-a-week boost aims to address the cost-of-living crisis for a largely female workforce and how it fits into a broader plan to restore pay equity legislation.
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Labour pledges a four dollar hourly wage increase for sixty-five thousand care and support workers.
Full-time care workers would earn an extra eight thousand three hundred twenty dollars annually under this plan.
Twenty-five percent of surveyed care workers currently skip meals due to high living costs.
Home support workers face financial crisis because fixed mileage rates fail to cover rising fuel costs.
Labour plans to reinstate the Equal Pay Act within one hundred days to resolve thirty-three halted claims.
A High Court challenge targets legislative amendments that blocked pay equity paths for thousands of workers.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02The Cost of the Commute2 min
- 03The $160 Calculation2 min
- 04The Legal Roadblock2 min
- 05Beyond the Interim Rise3 min
- 06Outro1 min
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