{"id":20964,"date":"2023-04-20T06:39:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=20964"},"modified":"2023-04-20T06:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:39:38","slug":"the-activity-test-must-go-and-early-childhood-education-and-care-workers-deserve-a-pay-rise-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/the-activity-test-must-go-and-early-childhood-education-and-care-workers-deserve-a-pay-rise-now\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ACTIVITY TEST MUST GO AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE WORKERS DESERVE A PAY RISE NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Women&#8217;s Economic Equality Taskforce\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-pgudid-ikjrmhyty-y\/\">recommendations&nbsp;<\/a>that the Government scrap the activity test and give early childhood education and care workers a pay rise in the May budget.The Australian Greens\u2019 have long called for these measures.<strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong>\u201cThe activity test is a disgrace of a policy. It is cruel, punitive and beyond repair.&nbsp;\u201cThe activity test denies access to early childhood education and care for the most disadvantaged children and punishes families with insecure, casual work.\u201cMany thousands of children from disadvantaged families are missing out on early childhood education and care because of the activity test- it should be abolished now.&nbsp;\u201cDumping the activity test would represent significant progress towards the Greens vision of free, universal early childhood education and care.\u201cThe treatment of early childhood education&nbsp; and care workers is a national shame. They continue to be paid well below what they deserve.\u201cThe government can\u2019t keep delaying action. Early childhood education and care workers deserve a pay rise now and recognition and respect for the important work they do. They have been undervalued for far too long.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Women&#8217;s Economic Equality Taskforce\u2019s&nbsp;recommendations&nbsp;that the Government scrap the activity test and give early childhood education and care workers a pay rise in the May budget.The Australian Greens\u2019 have long called for these measures.Senator Faruqi said:\u201cThe activity test is a disgrace of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/the-activity-test-must-go-and-early-childhood-education-and-care-workers-deserve-a-pay-rise-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE ACTIVITY TEST MUST GO AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE WORKERS DESERVE A PAY RISE NOW&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20965,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20964\/revisions\/20965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}