Australian Mental Health Workers Fight for Improved Wages and Conditions
Submitted on January 19, 2012
By Susan Allan - 19 January 2012
Mental health services are already in profound crisis, following decades of chronic underfunding...As a result, mental health workers and facilities are stretched to breaking point, with staff shortages and heavy workloads creating an unsafe working environment. Physical assaults in the workplace are increasing in frequency, and stress levels have created a staff retention crisis. Patients’ lives have also been placed at risk as a result of government policy.
