Vulnerable low-paid workers on short-term contracts are benefiting from new laws allowing them to transfer their long service leave entitlements between employers.
Short-term contract cleaners, community service workers and security guards are benefiting from the scheme, with 211,000 employees having now registered in Victoria since its inception two and a half years ago.
Security guard Thelas McDonald is one of them.
It's amazing for the security guards and it's well overdue. This is really going to give me and my familiy a bit more stability and just encouragement.
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