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Are you a Casual Nurse Academic who works remotely in Australia?

Here is your opportunity to contribute to our research study aiming to explore the experiences of casual nurse academics who work in a remote capacity in Australia. Knowledge gained from this research will build an evidence-base which higher education providers can use for developing, reviewing and refining policies and processes related to employment and support of their casual academic workforce who work remotely.  This study has been approved by the Australian Catholic University HREC 2024-3908E. The survey is completely anonymous and is expected to take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

If you would like to participate, you can do so here, where you can also view the participant information sheet and complete the survey if eligible.

An ACTU wants a charter of rights for employees working from home.

More people want to work from home but want better protections according to a survey of 10,000 Australian workers conducted by the ACTU.

The survey found that:

80 per cent of workers want to continue to work from home
40 per cent are working longer hours
90 per cent are not being paid overtime or penalty rates for extra hours worked
47 per cent said they were more productive at home.

Working from home has imposed an average $530 in additional expenses on each worker and about a third reported an increased workload.

The ACTU is proposing a working from home charter that ensures “the rights and benefits of those working at home not be less favourable than when they were prior to the move to home-based work, and that working from home not be grounds for discrimination”.

The charter of rights proposes that employers will have to commit that all workers’ time and expenses should be compensated, and workers should have the “right to disconnect” to preserve work-life balance.

ACTU secretary, Sally McManus, said the union movement “will be working to support our members … to ensure we lock in fair working from home arrangements”.

“We also need to be aware that working from home has particular impacts on women and carers, and we don’t want to see existing gender inequality entrenched through new forms of work.”

‘We also need to be aware that working from home has particular impacts on women and carers.’

Research: Experiences of casual nurse academics working remotely in Australia

80 per cent of employees want to continue working from home