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Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights

  • Written by Kantha Dayaram, Associate Professor, School of Management, Curtin University
Workplace transmissions: a predictable result of the class divide in worker rights

How to stop sick people going to work?

That’s a question the Victorian government has been grappling with since it became clear about 80% of new COVID-19 infections in the state’s second-wave outbreak were from workplace transmissions.

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