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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says wage increase for childcare workers will secure the future of early education
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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8/8/2024
Childcare workers will see a 15% wage increase, rolled out over 12 months from this December. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government-funded scheme will ensure the future of the sector.
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This 15% pay increase is justice.
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Justice for the work that early educators do.
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Not just in minding our children, because that's not what they do.
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Yes, they mind them, but they care for them and importantly they educate them as well.
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Human brain development occurs more in the first five years than in the rest of people's
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lives and that is why this is so important.
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That is why this is a reform whose time has come.
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It is no accident that feminised industries like childcare and aged care, social work,
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other industries, which are dominated by women, were the most underpaid.
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That's because these workers here know that if they take industrial action it has a devastating
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impact like our nurses and other sectors that have been dominated by women.
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The care sector needs to be valued and that's why it needs government and the Fair Work
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Commission to take that into account.
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This is good for these workers.
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Importantly it's good for our children as well.
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Since we came to office we see an increased number of people working in the sector, increased
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number of centres being opened.
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This will apply across the board for not-for-profit, for-profit, for out-of-school hours care,
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as long as those sectors as well pass on the benefit to families, which is why it's good.
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