Indigenous employees are working an extra year on unpaid ‘cultural load’ | NITV News

Indigenous employees across Australia are shouldering unfair loads at work, taking on cultural education and anti-racism initiatives with little institutional support.

Two in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers say they have had extra demands placed upon them that their non-Indigenous colleagues have not, known as ‘cultural load’.

The findings were made in ‘Gari Yala’, a new report by the Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research at University of Technology Sydney into First Nations experiences at work.

Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/the-cultural-safety-gap-in-australian-workplaces/czlzqw8mn

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