Over 70% of Australia’s aged care workers yet to receive $800 pandemic bonus, poll suggests

• Over 70% of workers from the aged care sector have not yet received their single payment from the pandemic bonus scheme of the government.
• The scheme is designed based on the aged care workforce retention payments amounting to $393 million made during the early stages of the pandemic.
• The government fails to pay the inadequate number of workers in the industry.
• Annie Butler, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation secretary, considers this failure of the government a disgrace.