Overlooked and undervalued, New Zealand’s community caregivers have become the ‘invisible’ essential workers
- Written by: Katherine Ravenswood, Associate Professor in Employment Relations, Auckland University of Technology
ShutterstockAs Auckland enters it’s fifth week in level 4 lockdown and the rest of New Zealand stays at level 2, spare a thought for the nation’s invisible network of essential community support workers.
They are the people caring for those who, through age or disability, cannot work or leave their homes, cannot independently care for...