Justice & Action
Informing on the latest industrial rights and action, nursing and midwifery’s collective force and social justice issues relevant to health
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An update on our Work Value cases
- December 9, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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Financial stress and your mental health
- November 7, 2024
- Category: Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
A higher cost of living has increased financial hardship for many Australians. Since 2020, interest rates, mortgages and inflation have risen fast, but real wages have gone down [1]. Despite low unemployment, higher living costs are affecting our living standards.
Fair Work Commission hands down decision on timing of pay rises for aged care workers
- July 1, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
Historic wage increases awarded to aged care workers will be delivered in two tranches from the start of next year, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has decided. In March, the FWC handed down final increases
‘No More Shame’ in disclosing and responding to violence and abuse of older women
- May 3, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Violence against women, in Australia and internationally, is a longstanding and pernicious scourge on all communities. In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that one in three women globally have suffered either physical and/or
Time to apply the Northern Ireland blueprint for peace in Israel-Gaza
- April 11, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone AO wrote a powerful article that was published online on 10 November 2023 in the ANMJ: “Bombing hospitals, destroying ambulances and the ethics of (un)just war”.1 Johnstone examined ‘just war theory’ and
Secure jobs and gender equality form the basis for the Modern Award Review 2023-24
- April 9, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
In December 2022, the Fair Work Act was amended to add two new objectives that need to be taken into account when deciding if awards meet the standard required of contemporary industrial relations. The new
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