Why Australia should invest in paying early childhood educators a liveable wage
- Written by Karen Thorpe, Professor, Deputy Director, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland
Many early education and care workers earn little above the minimum wage.www.shutterstock.com
Today, across the nation, educators who work in long day care centres are walking off the job for the fourth time in 18 months. In February this year, an attempt to bring a pay equity case through the Fair Work Commission was dismissed.
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