Reproductive Health Leave
In 2020, Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) began the Reproductive Health Leave campaign to ensure any person, regardless of their reproductive health challenges, can fully and meaningfully participate in work, and in turn are afforded the social and economic security they rightfully deserve. Today on World Sexual Health Day, we are pushing to see RHL go national for all workers, and we need your support! Learn more about our...
Right to Disconnect
From today, workers across the country have a new right in the Fair Work Act. The new law is called the ‘Employee Right to Disconnect’. This new law is designed to protect workers who do not wish to engage with the workplace outside their working hours. Our Union has proudly campaigned for the last decade for “No Pay No Way”. Why? Because we believe it’s important to protect work/life balance. What is changing and...
Gender Undervaluation in the Spotlight
Last year the Fair Work Commission released an important study into the undervaluation of feminised occupations, what would be considered as traditionally “women’s work”. It’s an important study as it considers the potential undervaluation of such work rather than focussing on the gender pay gap. The study touched on many of the occupations members are employed in like Medical Laboratory Scientists (particularly lab technicians many...
No Pay? No Way!
Over the past decades staff reductions forced through budget cuts has caused workloads to steadily increase. Health managers have long stopped thinking about how we cope with extra work. We are just expected to do more and more work in the same amount of time. In 2015, hundreds of thousands of hours of unpaid time will be worked to cope with unreasonably high workloads. There is growing evidence of a systemic reliance on unpaid work...