The Australian Industry Group and NDIS providers are attacking hard-won penalty rates of disability support workers. [Photo: Facebook/People with Disability Australia] In late 2023, the big business ...

A La Trobe University pilot study has found that using virtual reality (VR) technology to immerse disability support workers in an experience of the daily life of their clients helps to build empathy.

Over 300 advocates rallied in Albany for better pay and support for care workers. Housing, childcare, and healthcare initiatives supported to ease worker costs. Investment in workforce stability can ...

In 2021, the state promised wage increases to about 150,000 disability care workers to address a $1.8 billion dollar gap in pay rates for care providers. But only half of those pay increases have been ...

Disability care workers Ricardo Zegri and Niurka Sureda-Jackson sit outside the California state Capitol on April 10. Zegri says Taco Bell would pay him more than the $19 an hour he makes as a ...

Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the special rapporteur’s report on care and support for children with disabilities within the family environment and its gendered ...

State Sen. Shelley Mayer told Rally in the Valley supporters that staff who aid people with disabilities "should not have to work two or three jobs." ...

Workers with disabilities made major gains in 2023. All of this is bad for society, but it’s also bad for business. Here’s what leaders can do to help provide better opportunities for workers with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Advocates, families and people with developmental disabilities are blasting Gov. Kathy Hochul's 2025 budget plan as insulting to ...

Kathy Hochul offers a 2.5% cost-of-living increase in her budget plan. State lawmakers want an 8.5% hike for direct-care professionals. Advocates and nonprofits that employ DSPs say that's still not ...

Social care support workers in Caithness are being paid nearly £4000 less per year than their NHS counterparts for equivalent work, it was revealed.