{"id":5454,"date":"2020-03-14T05:09:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T05:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2020-03-14T05:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T05:09:42","slug":"corona-response-must-protect-casual-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/14\/corona-response-must-protect-casual-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"CORONA RESPONSE MUST PROTECT CASUAL WORKERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"intro\" class=\"intro\">\n<div class=\"content\">\nFederal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon has called for greater protection for casual workers in the Newcastle-Hunter region as part of the coronavirus stimulus package.<br \/>\nMs Claydon said local businesses and workers were particularly vulnerable to the flow-on impacts of coronavirus.<br \/>\n\u201cOur region is heavily exposed to the economic shockwaves from corona, given the significance of our small business, tourism and hospitality sectors,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cRegretfully, these same industries are also heavily reliant on casual workers, who are enormously vulnerable and without sick pay if they get their shifts cut or have to go into isolation.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said that concerns about workers had been a key theme of feedback from local business and representative organisations.<br \/>\n\u201cLocal businesses are facing unprecedented challenges themselves, but the consistent message they\u2019ve been giving me is they want to protect their workers,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison Government is doing nothing to ensure that the many thousands of casual workers in our community get through this terrible time. The message is clearly \u2018You\u2019re on your own.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said it was also a public health issue to contain the spread of the virus.<br \/>\n\u201cThe last thing we would want is sick workers continuing to go to work because they can\u2019t afford to do otherwise,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t just about protecting vulnerable workers \u2013 it\u2019s about protecting our entire community.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said it the problem shouldn\u2019t fall on the shoulders of business to fix.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s great that some businesses have announced that they will continue to pay workers who have to go into isolation, but it\u2019s neither fair nor reasonable to expect all businesses to do this.<br \/>\n\u201cSuccessive Liberal Federal Governments have supported an increasingly casualised workforce. It\u2019s now incumbent on the Morrison Government to step up and protect these workers and our communities.\u201d\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon has called for greater protection for casual workers in the Newcastle-Hunter region as part of the coronavirus stimulus package. Ms Claydon said local businesses and workers were particularly vulnerable to the flow-on impacts of coronavirus. \u201cOur region is heavily exposed to the economic shockwaves from corona, given the significance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/14\/corona-response-must-protect-casual-workers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CORONA RESPONSE MUST PROTECT CASUAL WORKERS&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","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=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}