Disability Services
Closing loopholes & winning pay rises
We have rallied, lobbied and built alliances across our sector, uniting to end wage theft in the NDIS.
We launched a landmark Fair Work Commission case to stop dodgy providers using a loophole to underpay workers up to $9 an hour.
We reported over 60 NDIS providers to Fair Work for rorts and rip offs, winning thousands in back pay for members along the way.
We have also resisted attempts by big business to make sleepovers worse and introduce 28 hour shifts. Big business thinks that $60 for a sleepover is “unsustainably generous”. It’s not generous, it is a rip off which is why we’re calling for the allowance to be tripled.
2024 Fran Teirney Award
He has been a voice to Government, to the NDIS Commission, to the media, to industry groups - to better understand and recognise the role and contribution of independent support workers and their important place in the NDIS for people with disability.
Congratulations Jon Mills on winning our 2024 Fran Teirney Award!
Jon works in the Blue Mountains in disability services. He has been a long serving delegate in our disability sector and supported members at his organisation when the introduction of the NDIS impacted members jobs and conditions. In recent years, he's gone into independent support work, and has since then been a leading voice for Independent Support Workers within our union.
He has been a champion of portable entitlements and was pivotal in advising the NSW Government on their design of portable long service leave this year so that it included sole traders.
Jon is a passionate advocate for all workers, no matter how they are engaged, to be union and be union proud. Thank you Jon!
Skilled, Respected, Equal
The Community and Disability Sector Award hasn’t been updated in 30 years. This year we launched a landmark Fair Work Commission case to fix the SCHADS Award.
The Community and Disability Sector Award hasn’t been updated in 30 years. This year we launched a landmark Fair Work Commission case to fix the SCHADS Award. The award does not reflect the complexity of work, the experience, qualifications or skills required. It does not provide career pathways.
