The government must tighten minimum wage regulations
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 […]
Of course, the new wage level is anything but a “living wage”. It pays more than a pound less than the real living wage […]
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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