{"id":2557,"date":"2019-04-30T15:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2019-04-30T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T15:25:25","slug":"better-pay-for-early-childhood-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/30\/better-pay-for-early-childhood-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"BETTER PAY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Shorten Labor Government will ensure Australia\u2019s early childhood educators are better paid, supporting a quality early education and care system that delivers the best outcomes for children.
\nEarly childhood educators are doing the important and demanding job of educating and caring for our next generation \u2013 90 per cent of a child\u2019s brain development occurs in the first five years of a child\u2019s life.
\nYet they are some of the lowest-paid workers.
\nThat\u2019s why Labor will work with the early education sector in the first 100 days of government to increase the wages of early childhood educators in the private and not-for-profit sectors.
\nLabor will fund pay\u00a0increases of 20 per cent to early childhood educators over 8 years –<\/strong>supporting workers and delivering professional pay.
\nAs a result \u2013 the average total wages of early childhood educators will\u00a0increase by an<\/strong>estimated $11,300<\/strong>.
\nThis is in addition to any wage increases made by the Fair Work Commission as part of their annual wage review, or any additional increases in wages employers agree with their workers.
\nFar too many early childhood educators leave the profession \u2013 37 per cent a year \u2013 not because they don\u2019t love the job, but because they can\u2019t afford to stay. If Australia wants the world\u2019s best early education system, then we need to do more to keep our best educators in the system.
\nNo one knows the importance of keeping quality educators in their jobs better than the millions of Australian parents who trust early educators with their children every day.
\nThis will make it easier to attract and retain dedicated and passionate people in the profession, and it will make it easier to keep great early educators on the frontline.
\nImportantly, this pay rise will not affect child care fees because it will be fully funded by the Commonwealth. Fees have gone up 28 per cent under the Liberals, and families are paying enough. The pay rise will be delivered in a way that ensures the costs are not passed on to parents. There will also be audits to ensure child care centre operators pass on the pay rises in full.
\nLabor\u2019s investment in quality early education will be good for jobs and good for our economy.
\nThis is an investment in pay equity for a female-dominated industry and is another step in our plan to help with the cost of living.
\nOur plan will ensure every dollar goes into the pockets of the educators, not onto the bottom line of the child care companies.
\nWe are raising the wages of early educators through direct investment \u2013 because we don\u2019t want families paying one cent more than they must for child care.
\nWhen Labor was last in Government, we provided significant pay increases to the undervalued social and community services workforce \u2013 also mostly women.
\nLabor will lead a national push to help close the gender pay gap, make sure women get a fair go at work and make sure those people we trust to educate the next generation are fairly paid.
\nLabor has provisioned $537 million over the forward estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Shorten Labor Government will ensure Australia\u2019s early childhood educators are better paid, supporting a quality early education and care system that delivers the best outcomes for children. Early childhood educators are doing the important and demanding job of educating and caring for our next generation \u2013 90 per cent of a child\u2019s brain development … Continue reading “BETTER PAY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS”<\/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-2557","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\/2557","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=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}