The Greens are joining the United Workers Union (UWU) in calling on the Labor Government to take urgent action to guarantee fair pay for the nation\u2019s early childhood educators and prevent a looming pay cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The call follows recent Fair Work Commission (FWC) updates to the Children\u2019s Services Award. With the FWC\u2019s decision to stretch long-term pay increases across several years, a dangerous gap now exists between the scheduled end of current worker retention payments and the actual implementation of the new pay increases. Currently, the expiration of interim retention payments could leave thousands of educators in this majority-female workforce facing a real-terms pay reduction just before next Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens are urging the Government to bridge the funding gap and permanently lock in the 15% pay increase to ensure stability for workers and the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens Early Childhood Education and Care Spokesperson, Senator Steph Hodgins-May:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter a gruelling year, it is cruel and indefensible to leave educators facing the anxiety of pay uncertainty before next Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Staggering this award increase will hurt educators during a cost-of-living crisis and threatens to destabilise the entire workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Albanese Government must fund the gap and lock in a permanent 15 per cent pay rise that workers and their unions have been calling for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur kids deserve safe, high-quality care, but that\u2019s only possible if the educators at the heart of the system have a fair wage and a secure future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens are joining the United Workers Union (UWU) in calling on the Labor Government to take urgent action to guarantee fair pay for the nation\u2019s early childhood educators and prevent a looming pay cliff. The call follows recent Fair Work Commission (FWC) updates to the Children\u2019s Services Award. With the FWC\u2019s decision to stretch … Continue reading “Greens call on Labor to secure 15% pay rise, ensure early childhood educators are paid their worth”<\/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-36708","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\/36708","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=36708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36709,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36708\/revisions\/36709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}