Disability support workers hit by pay and holiday cuts
The FOA has joined with disability campaigning organisations to challenge the government and municipalities on cuts to the pay and conditions of workers providing support to people with disabilities. Some workers directly employed by the people they care for are losing out on night and weekend allowances while seeing their maternity leave cut and losing their sixth week of paid leave. The funding is provided by municipalities who are no longer the direct employers of these staff but the level of funding is inadequate to maintain the pay and conditions the workers would have had under direct