Posts tagged "essential workers"

Nine out of 10 transport workers don't want to work alongside close contacts of COVID-19, according to a survey of 2500 staff.

Australian workplaces are set to have a 10% absenteeism rate as states and territories reach the peak of Omicron outbreaks. 

Nationally, women lost jobs at a faster rate than men, with payroll jobs held by women falling by 2.8%. Young people were the age demographic hit hardest during the period.

DiDi will use the Global Vaccination Support Fund to offer essential workers free and significantly discounted trips.

Soaring workplace transmissions is the result of a growing class divide in which essential workers in high-risk industries lack job security.

Doctors, nurses, teachers, carers and childcare workers are on the front lines in the fight against coronavirus. And the vast majority of them are women.

New figures show women are shouldering most of the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis as the government's JobKeeper package fails to support them.