Providers warn any increase in wages in the childcare sector will have to be backed by extra government funding or parents will be slugged with higher fees.
to make it easier for multiple employers in a sector to reach a single enterprise bargaining agreement., citing childcare as a sector that might benefit. Early Childhood Education Minister Anne Aly has also flagged that anything that could get wages moving should be discussed at the summit.
“Unfortunately, government’s been looking the other way for a very long time,” chief executive Michele Carnegie said.“They haven’t invested in the workforce, they haven’t invested in future-proofing the workforce … There needs to be government intervention in retention and incentivising people to come into the sector … and it needs to be done in a way that the cost doesn’t then get passed on to parents.
“Whether that’s across the whole sector, or whether that’s regional or whether that’s some employers, we should try and find solutions together,” she said. But Price acknowledged there wasn’t a peak body like hers in every jurisdiction to steer negotiations, and existing administrative hurdles were very high.
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