The Morrison government is under pressure to provide extra staff, protective equipment and rapid tests for the disability sector as it deals with the Omicron strain of COVID-19.
Disability sector workers, people with disabilities and union representatives will be in Canberra on Tuesday for talks with MPs.
The ACTU has written a letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, calling for financial help and for him to meet with stakeholders to discuss a fit-for-purpose national plan of action.
ACTU president Michele O'Neil said the needs of some of the most vulnerable Australians were not being properly considered by the government.
"Disability workers are falling ill at an alarming rate and workplaces are becoming unsafe," she told AAP. "The Morrison government must address this workforce crisis and provide immediate support to the disability sector."
She said a national plan was needed to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks and to support and manage staff isolations.
Meanwhile, Mr Morrison has defended the government not ordering enough rapid antigen tests, as thousands called for them to be made free for everyone.
The prime minister claimed health officials did not advise him that RATs would need to be widely used before the outbreak of Omicron during summer.
"In fact, they were not even approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration until November of last year," he said.
A petition of more than 150,000 signatures was tabled in parliament on Monday calling for rapid antigen tests to be made free for everyone.
While the government has made the tests free for concession card holders, with product limits in place, there have been growing calls for them to be made universally available.
Monday also saw the start of the rollout of the Novavax vaccine across the country.
The vaccine is the fifth vaccine to have been approved for use in Australia and the first that is protein-based.
There have been 2100 sites that have placed orders for more than 315,000 Novavax doses.
There were 25 fatalities from COVID-19 reported on Monday across the country.
Of those, 14 were in NSW, six in Queensland, three in South Australia and two in Victoria.
There were a further 19,680 cases nationally on Monday.
NSW recorded 6,184, while there were 7,104 in Victoria, 3,750 in Queensland and 1,027 in South Australia.
ACT had 375, while Tasmania and the NT had 408 and 757 respectively, with WA registering 62 cases.
