Human Resources

Compliance burden is one of the top fears for many providers awaiting the implementation of the new Aged Care Act, with home care and residential care operators set to inherit daunting amounts of regulatory work.

Insights from Palliative Care Australia reveal increasing demand for the palliative care workforce with roughly half experiencing signs of burnout while satisfaction rates for self-care plus physical and financial health are worryingly low.

A successful pivot into the healthcare and aged care industry has enabled WOFO to develop into an impactful workforce provider solution.

Employees with disability are almost twice as likely to experience discrimination and harassment in the workplace with a fear of disclosure placing the onus on employers to dismantle personal and systemic biases.

As aged care’s workforce demographics shift, it has never been more important for employers to embrace workplace flexibility and internal mobility.

Major changes are occurring to WorkCover schemes across Australia with WorkSafe Victoria being the latest to modernise theirs, bringing in new eligibility requirements for mental injury claims.

Australia’s workplaces are stuck in the mud as gender pay equality, wage theft and diversity and inclusion practices stall, according to new research.

Aged care nurses can benefit from a brand new peer-led telehealth counselling service that provides ongoing, thorough support for all nurses, midwives and students across Australia.

As our health and aged care sectors look at how to entice the next generation into these industries, one provider is tackling recruitment and retention a little differently with promising results. 

Recently, the Fair Work Commission announced that employees would legally have the right to disconnect from work outside of their usual work hours.