Care charity forcing staff to sign in using fingerprints may be breaching law
Residential care staff are being forced to sign in every hour using fingerprints and photographs – a policy that may be against new EU law.
Residential care staff are being forced to sign in every hour using fingerprints and photographs – a policy that may be against new EU law.
A Public Accounts Committee report this week revealed how care workers are leaving the profession due to crippling low pay – and the Government has done nothing.
Most carer workers are still being paid well under the national minimum wage. And the government isn’t doing anything about it.
Parliament is crumbling in more ways than one. But momentum is growing in the labour movement for real democratic reform.
Outsourcing jobs to private companies will create a more fractured and less responsive health service.
Thousands of NHS jobs are being outsourced to private ‘arms-length’ companies, but workers are fighting the plans.
Every UK citizen owes more than £3,400 to PFI companies – this might be the solution we desperately need.
Up to 1,650 local hospital staff across two different NHS trusts face transfer to subsidiary companies, where unions worry their employment rights could be eroded away.
The company is gradually being forced to take its responsibilities as an employer seriously.
And the health service could really do with the money to avert a care crisis this winter.