Most homecare employees work in isolation and rarely see colleagues so it’s difficult for them to compare their experiences. And even when […]
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It used to take Judith Montgomery three and a half hours to earn two hours’ pay.
Failure to honour the minimum wage is endemic across the care sector as many homecare workers are unpaid for the time they travel between home visits – which can be up to a fifth of their working day, says UNISON today (Thursday). The union is urging the government to end the systematic underpayment that it […]
From today, many low-paid workers will begin to receive the so-called “national living wage” – of course, the new wage level is anything but
Vitally important care workers are being paid far less than the absolute basic minimum that they should receive: nearly 20 years on from the establishment of a minimum wage in this country, that should be a source of national embarrassment
UNISON has worked hard to raise this issue in Parliament, and the union would like as many MPs as possible […]
UNISON members reveal how cuts in services affect both them and the people in their care
Commenting on the ruling today (Thursday) UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “This case rightly demonstrates that mobile workers must […]
Not content with cutting in-work benefits for low paid workers the government has announced plans to make striking for higher pay even more difficult than it already is, if not completely impossible. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says that families with young children could be up to £1,000 a year worse off because of the […]