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The government must tighten minimum wage regulations

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

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UNISON members reveal how cuts in services affect both them and the people in their care

Mobile workers must now be paid for all their travel time – and Ministers must plan how this will be funded

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 […]