ANALYSIS: We have an Australia Day meat shortage thanks to COVID-19, but it was entirely preventable
by the Australian Meat Processor Corporation put the percentage of the workforce on casual contracts at 20 per cent, with no sick leave benefits and the ability to be sacked "on any given day part-way through a shift". The rest were "daily hires", able to be sacked with a day's notice.suggest industry employment practices have not improved since then.
These conditions were well-documented and understood. This current crisis should have been foreseeable, even allowing for the Omicron variant.
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