The Australian Industry Group and NDIS providers are attacking hard-won penalty rates of disability support workers. [Photo: Facebook/People with Disability Australia] In late 2023, the big business ...

As part of aged care reforms, the Australian government is taking a more coordinated approach in providing access to in-home care by replacing existing programmes with a more flexible and streamlined ...

Over 300 advocates rallied in Albany for better pay and support for care workers. Housing, childcare, and healthcare initiatives supported to ease worker costs. Investment in workforce stability can ...

In 2021, the state promised wage increases to about 150,000 disability care workers to address a $1.8 billion dollar gap in pay rates for care providers. But only half of those pay increases have been ...

Disability care workers Ricardo Zegri and Niurka Sureda-Jackson sit outside the California state Capitol on April 10. Zegri says Taco Bell would pay him more than the $19 an hour he makes as a ...

There's a fine line between respecting privacy and preventing harm but knowing when to cross it is vital in all care settings, writes Anna Galliford Making friends, dating and forming long-term, ...

Dozens of direct care workers on Tuesday testified in support of a new bipartisan proposal to help raise chronically low ...

SACRAMENTO — Families of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities say Gov. Gavin Newsom is reneging on a scheduled raise for the workers who care for their loved ones, and advocates ...

Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the special rapporteur’s report on care and support for children with disabilities within the family environment and its gendered ...

A young disability support worker has opened up about the harsh reality of finding a rental property on the Sunshine Coast without uprooting the lives of her younger siblings, who are still reeling ...

Up to 500 workers are fighting to recoup pay, super and entitlements after the collapse of a large disability support ...