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resources looking at ways of better engaging workers
in the disabled and aged care community, and he has
determined ambitions of changing the tides of the
industry’s under-employment tendencies forever.
Australia is facing a projected shortfall of workers
estimated at a shortage of a couple hundred thousand
employees by 2026,” Turner explains, “One of the
problems in the community sector is that a lot of the
work is casual or part
time because clients
only need assistance at
specific times in the day
-
say from eight to ten in
the morning, and then
again from four to six
in the afternoon. This
makes a big hiatus in the
middle of the day where
skilled workers are not
working.”
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