Labor delivers another Fantastic boost to the Low Paid Child Care Sector, page-21

Speaking from experience there is no 'workplace casualisation' in Aged Care. My wife works in aged care and my mother is a resident.

The Age Care homes prefer full time permanent staff or part time permanent staff. These wages are the lowest and casual staff cost more on an hourly basis. Casual jobs are normally taken up by overseas full time students who have work restrictions on the number of hours they can work so they want maximum bang for their buck in terms of the amount of money they can get for the minimum hours.

Aged Care homes want to serve their residents as best they can and this includes having the same staff providing care to the resident each day, particularly as this care involves things like bathing and toileting the residents, so highly personal stuff. Residents don't like strangers washing their privates or wiping their bums.

Where there is a staff shortage, and no employees take up the extra shift (often it comes with a $100 incentive payment) the Aged Care home has to engage someone from a Labour Hire firm who get paid upwards of $80 per hour.

Since the big pay rise last year staff seem happier and turnover has reduced. The deferral of this years pay rise has been noted by staff.