{"id":7276,"date":"2020-07-13T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7276"},"modified":"2020-07-13T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T08:14:09","slug":"extend-free-childcare-and-provide-jobkeeper-for-ecec-workers-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/extend-free-childcare-and-provide-jobkeeper-for-ecec-workers-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Extend Free Childcare And Provide JobKeeper For ECEC Workers: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have said that returning to expensive fee-paying childcare today will harm families, disproportionately impact women and threaten the viability of early learning as the Covid-19 pandemic continues.<br \/>\nThe federal government should extend free childcare and ensure all early childhood education and care workers are eligible for JobKeeper payments.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens spokesperson for Education, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s downright cruel and shortsighted to scrap free childcare before practically every other Covid-19 support measure.<br \/>\n\u201cReverting to expensive, fee-paying childcare now will preclude struggling families from accessing early learning and put centre viability at risk. This government is failing women who will disproportionately feel the impact of this senseless snap back.<br \/>\n\u201cAs Covid-19 cases continue to rise, Dan Tehan should extend free childcare and ensure JobKeeper eligibility for all ECEC workers.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly disappointing that the first sector to have its support withdrawn is early learning, and the first workers to lose JobKeeper are ECEC staff &#8211; the vast majority of whom are women. They have been treated very poorly by this government.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a real missed opportunity to reimagine early learning as a universal, essential service. Instead, the Liberals are more interested in deepening the crisis via austerity,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens spokesperson for Women, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison government has a 1950s attitude to women and its policies will condemn more women to the kitchen.<br \/>\n\u201cNumerous reports show that women are suffering the worst economic impacts from coronavirus, losing more jobs or hours of work than men, and performing a much higher care load.<br \/>\n\u201cFree childcare helped ease the financial burden families face and ensured women had more ability to do paid work.<br \/>\n\u201cReturning to expensive childcare, and axing JobKeeper early for childcare workers, will force many women to reduce their work hours to juggle childcare.<br \/>\n\u201cYou want economic stimulus, then help women return to the workplace by making childcare permanently free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have said that returning to expensive fee-paying childcare today will harm families, disproportionately impact women and threaten the viability of early learning as the Covid-19 pandemic continues. The federal government should extend free childcare and ensure all early childhood education and care workers are eligible for JobKeeper payments. Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/extend-free-childcare-and-provide-jobkeeper-for-ecec-workers-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Extend Free Childcare And Provide JobKeeper For ECEC Workers: Greens&#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-7276","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\/7276","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=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}