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BackgroundDespite a plethora of research into Aboriginal employment and recruitment, the extent and nature of the retention of frontline Aboriginal people in health, ageing, and disability workforces are currently unknown. In this application, frontline service delivery is defined as Aboriginal people who are paid employees in the health, ageing, and disability service sectors in roles that involve direct client, participant, or patient contact. There is a need to identify the factors that inhibit (push) and promote (pull) staff retention or departure of this workforce from the sectors. This study will provide additional insight about this topic. ObjectiveThe objective of this project is to uncover the factors that influence the retention of frontline Aboriginal workers in the health, ageing, and disability workforces in New South Wales (NSW) who do not have university qualifications. The aim of the proposed project aims to discover the push and pull factors for the retention of the frontline Aboriginal workforce in the health, ageing, and disability sectors in NSW in relation to their role, employment, and community and design evidence-based strategies for retaining the Aboriginal frontline workforce in the health, ageing, and disability sectors in NSW. MethodsThe proposed research will use a mixed methods approach, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data via surveys and interviews to capture and represent the voices and perspectives of Aboriginal people in a way that the participants chose. ResultsIndigenous research methodologies are a growing field in Aboriginal health research in Australia. A key strength of this study is that it is led by Aboriginal scholars and Aboriginal controlled organizations that apply an Indigenous methodological framework throughout the research process. ConclusionsThis study uses a mixed methods design. The survey and interview questions and model were developed in partnership with Aboriginal health, ageing, and disability service workers rather than relying only on research publications on the workforce, government policies, and human resources strategies. This design places a strong emphasis on generalizable findings together with an inductive approach that explores employers and workers’ lived experience of the Aboriginal health workforce in NSW. Excluding workers who have graduated from university places a strong focus on the workforce who have obtained either school or Technical and Further Education or registered training organizations qualifications. Data collection was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and results will include the unique experiences of Aboriginal workers and employers delivering services in an extremely challenging organizational, community, and personal context. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)PRR1-10.2196/25261

Workforce issues are central to the changes necessary to create safer and higher-quality services for people with intellectual disabilities. This article examines the Disability Royal Commission's (the Commission) workforce recommendations relating to the disability services sector, which has been beset by chronic workforce problems since the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). We describe the rich evidence in the Commission's Final Report and its analysis of key issues such as work value, disability worker qualifications, training, and worker registration. Many of these issues are especially relevant to people with intellectual disabilities, who need sophisticated, highly skilled support provided by experienced workers, characteristics that can be scarce in a high-turnover industry with persistent labour shortages and almost no barriers to entry. However, the Commission ultimately backs away from making recommendations on the most controversial issues, including the price-setting matrix for disability support services, known as the Disability Support Worker Cost Model. Unchanged, this will continue to constrain the sector's ability to create high-quality working environments conducive to continuous learning that will support people with intellectual disabilities in the way they want to be supported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 300 pp., $19.95 p.b. (ISBN 0-5202-3093-0) This volume of edited articles, representing a series of studies of recent immigrant settlement patterns in five US [...]

Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2000, np, no ISBN According to official data, some 3 million Bangladeshis emigrated in the 25-year period 1976-2000, mostly as labour migrants. The majority (nearly 2 [...]

Focuses the Working Women's Centres of New South Wales. Concept of Working Women's Centres; Experience of New South Wales on maternity rights; Enjoyment of limited maternity rights by Australian women; Presentation of a case relating to regular casual.