Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights
How to stop sick people going to work? That’s a question the Victorian government has been grappling with since it became clear about 80% of new COVID-19 infections in the state’s second-wave outbreak were from workplace transmissions. It’s the consequence of a deepening class divide in work in whic...
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| description | How to stop sick people going to work? That’s a question the Victorian government has been grappling with since it became clear about 80% of new COVID-19 infections in the state’s second-wave outbreak were from workplace transmissions. It’s the consequence of a deepening class divide in work in which hundreds of thousands of essential workers in high-risk industries are poorly paid and lack job security, guaranteed hours or sick-leave entitlements. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-805872021-07-27T06:47:50Z Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights Dayaram, Kantha Burgess, John Fitzgerald, Scott 1503 - Business and Management sick-leave entitlements precarious employment job security Industrial Relations Fair Work Commission How to stop sick people going to work? That’s a question the Victorian government has been grappling with since it became clear about 80% of new COVID-19 infections in the state’s second-wave outbreak were from workplace transmissions. It’s the consequence of a deepening class divide in work in which hundreds of thousands of essential workers in high-risk industries are poorly paid and lack job security, guaranteed hours or sick-leave entitlements. 2020 Non traditional textual works http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80587 English https://theconversation.com/workplace-transmissions-a-predictable-result-of-the-class-divide-in-worker-rights-143896 The Conversation unknown |
| spellingShingle | 1503 - Business and Management sick-leave entitlements precarious employment job security Industrial Relations Fair Work Commission Dayaram, Kantha Burgess, John Fitzgerald, Scott Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights |
| title | Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights |
| title_full | Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights |
| title_fullStr | Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights |
| title_full_unstemmed | Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights |
| title_short | Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights |
| title_sort | workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights |
| topic | 1503 - Business and Management sick-leave entitlements precarious employment job security Industrial Relations Fair Work Commission |
| url | https://theconversation.com/workplace-transmissions-a-predictable-result-of-the-class-divide-in-worker-rights-143896 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80587 |