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Disability workers are facing longer days with less pay

Written by Fiona Macdonald, Senior Research Fellow in Work & Employment Relations, RMIT University

The study found that the disability support workers regularly spent unpaid time on two types of work activities.www.shutterstock.com

Disability support workers are being significantly underpaid as some core tasks and activities do not get counted as work, our research finds.

We investigated disability support workers’ working time patterns and...

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