Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 11.32 EST Unions and aged care experts are outraged that the royal commission into the sector has not recommended a clear path away from the “overcasualisation” of the system’s workforce, warning the extra time residents are set to receive with carers will ultimately feel “transactional” and detrimental to dementia sufferers if providers can still rely on labour hire agencies. The Australian Council of Trade Unions is mostly optimistic that key recommendations on training, skills and daily minutes of care per resident made on Monday would, if adopted by the Morrison government, boost the number of carers at residential facilities and lift wages across the traditionally underskilled, underpaid and exhausted workforce.