The "double shift" borne by women who combine paid work with a disproportionate amount of domestic tasks is likely to become a "triple shift" as they have to also take on elder care, Sex Discrimination Commission Pru Goward warned today as she launched a new discussion paper on better sharing of paid and unpaid work between men and women.
Wage subsidies, greater employee choice in working hours, more training opportunities and universal access to job search assistance should be considered by the Federal Government to address populating ageing, a new OECD report says.
Around 30,000 Telstra employees will vote in coming weeks on a proposed new enterprise agreement that restricts annual wage rises to 2.5%, but locks in generous public sector conditions ahead of the planned full privatisation of the telco.
The bid by visiting medical officers in the ACT to form a new union has today been thrown out by the AIRC, which found they were ineligible because they were independent contractors.
