Australia Day work options limited by 'industrial roadblock' for employers

A family violence service in central Victoria is considering changing its employee bargaining agreement to allow staff the option of working on Australia Day.

It's an issue cropping up across the country as growing numbers of Australians voice their opposition to the day on the basis it was not inclusive or sensitive to Indigenous citizens.

The Centre for Non-Violence has surveyed its staff, most of whom want the flexibility to work on January 26 and take an alternative day in lieu.

However its head of diversity and inclusion, Sammy Bowden, said the organisation had hit an "industrial roadblock".

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