NDIS wage theft case heads to tribunal
Unions are banding together for the first day of their landmark Fair Work Commission case that aims to stamp out wage theft of NDIS workers.
The proceedings brought on by the ASU, AWU, HSU and UWU will kick off on Tuesday, with the unions fighting to stop NDIS providers from misclassifying their staff as home care workers, which has a lower award rate, and pocketing the difference of as much as $9 per hour.
To achieve this, the unions are seeking to amend the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 to specify that workers providing NDIS-funded services must be properly classified – and therefore properly paid – as social and community services employees.
“We can no longer sustain a “whack-a-mole” approach to deal with dodgy providers in the NDIS,” Angus McFarland, ASU NSW/ACT secretary and national union spokesperson for the campaign said.
“There are too many rorts and workers being ripped off. We are taking action in the Fair Work Commission to ban this practice once and for all.
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