{"id":7562,"date":"2020-08-03T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2020-08-03T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:07:28","slug":"paid-pandemic-leave-not-enough-wont-properly-support-health-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/paid-pandemic-leave-not-enough-wont-properly-support-health-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid pandemic \u2018leave\u2019 not enough & won\u2019t properly support health effort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nScott Morrison\u2019s pandemic payment announcement is a poor substitute for sick leave and doesn\u2019t properly support the public health push to contain the coronavirus, said Greens Leader, Adam Bandt.
\n\u201cWorkers can only get this watered-down payment if they\u2019ve been ordered to stay at home, so it won\u2019t cover people who are experiencing symptoms but haven\u2019t yet visited a doctor,\u201d said Mr Bandt.
\n\u201cThe unwillingness to provide a simple across-the-board pandemic leave entitlement at a worker\u2019s normal rate of pay is pointless penny pinching and it doesn\u2019t give us the best chance to beat this virus.\u201d
\n\u201cPeople without leave entitlements who are feeling even the slightest bit sick should be encouraged to stay at home and not come to work. They shouldn\u2019t have to wait for an instruction from a health official to get financial support.\u201d
\n\u201cAlso, because this isn\u2019t a true leave entitlement applying across the country, workers without sick leave outside of Victoria will still face the financial pressure of coming in to work while sick or awaiting test results.\u201d
\n\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be waiting for a state of disaster until we tell people they can stay home when they\u2019re sick.”
\n\u201cPandemic leave should also be about outbreak prevention. Waiting until there is a state of disaster before having access risks fueling the spread until an official announcement.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve seen unions, community groups and health experts join the calls for this vital measure for months. This is a belated and over-complicated response to those calls.
\n\u201cThe decades-long, intentional erosion of worker\u2019s rights like sick leave, must be reversed. It has driven inequality and in the context of Covid is a threat to public safety. The various caveats in this scheme have an ideological flavor that should have no place in a pandemic response,\u201d Bandt said.
\nThe Greens announced legislation for national paid pandemic leave in March and today produced advice that there was no barrier for the Treasurer to bring in paid pandemic leave without legislation or appropriations bill,” Bandt said\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Scott Morrison\u2019s pandemic payment announcement is a poor substitute for sick leave and doesn\u2019t properly support the public health push to contain the coronavirus, said Greens Leader, Adam Bandt. \u201cWorkers can only get this watered-down payment if they\u2019ve been ordered to stay at home, so it won\u2019t cover people who are experiencing symptoms but haven\u2019t … Continue reading “Paid pandemic \u2018leave\u2019 not enough & won\u2019t properly support health effort”<\/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-7562","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\/7562","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=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}