NZACA Welcomes HRC Inquiry Finding For Increased
Government Funding
The New Zealand Aged Care Association
welcomes the main finding from the Human Rights Commission
report that recommends increasing government funding by up
to $140 million to support pay parity with staff employed by
District Health Boards.
The NZACA, which represents
aged care providers, has been urging the government for the
last six years to increase caregiver wages to bring them up
to the level of those employed by DHBs.
“New Zealand
needs to look to the long-term. A grey tsunami is coming. We
will need to increase the number of caregivers in this
industry to ensure that we are prepared for the coming
decades, and pay parity is a key component to ensure that
this achievable,” Mr Martin Taylor, the Chief Executive of
the NZACA, said.
“It also needs to be understood
that aged-care providers have played their part by passing
on funding increases to staff. This has resulted in wages
going up by over 28 percent since 2005, which is well ahead
of wage inflation at 20 percent.”
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