{"id":22284,"date":"2021-07-08T00:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/?p=22284"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T00:54:19","slug":"union-win-aged-care-incorrect-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/union-win\/union-win-aged-care-incorrect-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"Aged Care Worker Wins Backpay and Pay Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6gjgb\" data-offset-key=\"clhrg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"clhrg-0-0\"><strong>Union Win: Aged Care worker wins pay rise and $2,500 backpay.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"clhrg-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6gjgb\" data-offset-key=\"clhrg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"clhrg-0-0\">\n<p>An Aged Care member contacted United Workers Union, raising concerns that they had been under-classified by their employer for years.<\/p>\n<p>After investigating and validating the claim the member, together with United Workers Union, decided to fight for the correct pay level.<\/p>\n<p>After providing evidence that the employee was misclassified, the company agreed to adjust the member\u2019s level, winning the worker an immediate pay rise and 2.5 years of backpay worth $2500!<\/p>\n<p>It goes to show that when members stand up, supported by our mighty union, we can fight exploitation and achieve the recognition we deserve! It pays to be a member of your union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6gjgb\" data-offset-key=\"1au55-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1au55-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1au55-0-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/joinform\">Click here<\/a> to join your union and stand with us as we fight for better jobs, and a fairer Australia!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1au55-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1au55-0-0\">[divider height=&#8221;30&#8243; style=&#8221;default&#8221; line=&#8221;default&#8221; color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; themecolor=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1au55-0-0\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aged Care member wins an immediate pay rise and $2,500 in backpay after raising concerns about being misclassified with United Workers Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":22411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-22284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-win","tag-aged-care"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}