My niece is a support worker for a residential care home & has had her first #COVID19 #vaccine (great news) but no sign of her being given a #livingwage #pension or #sickpay. No wonder the sector has so many vacancies!
While challenging immigration restrictions is really important all social care employers and commissioners of care should sign up to the UNISON Ethical Care Charter if they are really worried about social care vacancies.
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People are generally remunerated according to their skills, knowledge, qualification and level of experience. Unfortunately there are many people who qualify to be "carers" and this depresses the pay. There are fewer people intelligent or qualified to be brain surgeons and rocket scientists and the remuneration reflects this. Its the way it works in every society across the world - including communist ones. Get over it.
PS... don't believe everything the BBC says.
this is not a post calling for the same wage for all? it is calling for care workers not to be paid a poverty wage (at the expense of other tax payers who then have to top up their wages).
No, I don't believe everything the BBC says (even though I don't think anyone can say that report was in anyway inaccurate?). However, I trust the BBC more than any other media outlet (as imperfect as it is).
Being perpetually undercut by cheap foreign labour I'm afraid... but there again you support Labour's mass immigration policy.. get used to the consequences.
if the care sector was being so undercut by "cheap foreign labour" there would not be 104,000 vacancies pre brexit.
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