All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February Essential workers feeling the strain of COVID-19 Essential workers feeling the strain of COVID-19 22/02/2021 | 5 MINS Forrest Prospect Fellow, Dr Catriona Stevens, and Professor Loretta Baldassar from LIT's Social Care and Ageing Living Lab discuss how COVID-19 is impacting essential workers who hold temporary visas. Recent cases of Covid-19 that have emerged from AustraliaΓÇÖs hotel quarantine have revealed the plight facing many of our essential workers. Many of these essential workers are temporary visa holders, including students, graduates and working holiday makers who fill important front-line roles in sectors such as aged care, delivery driving, or ΓÇô as the recent case 903 in Perth illustrates ΓÇô hotel quarantine and other security services. Although critical to AustraliaΓÇÖs society and economy, they face multiple sources of stress and anxiety, particularly during Covid-19 and public policy needs to better acknowledge and mitigate the challenges they face. Some of the stresses these essential workers face arise from their
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February Essential workers feeling the strain of COVID-19 Essential workers feeling the strain of COVID-19 22/02/2021 | 5 MINS Forrest Prospect Fellow, Dr Catriona Stevens, and Professor Loretta Baldassar from LIT's Social Care and Ageing Living Lab discuss how COVID-19 is impacting essential workers who hold temporary visas.
Recent cases of Covid-19 that have emerged from AustraliaΓÇÖs hotel quarantine have revealed the plight facing many of our essential workers.
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Many of these essential workers are temporary visa holders, including students, graduates and working holiday makers who fill important front-line roles in sectors such as aged care, delivery driving, or ΓÇô as the recent case 903 in Perth illustrates ΓÇô hotel quarantine and other security services.
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Although critical to AustraliaΓÇÖs society and economy, they face multiple sources of stress and anxiety, particularly during Covid-19 and public policy needs to better acknowledge and mitigate the challenges they face.
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