Protesting care workers gathered in Derby city centre
ABOUT 20 care workers have gathered in Derby city centre to protest about proposed cuts to their wages.
The employees from Thera East Midlands – which helps provide home care for people with learning disabilities – are upset about a lack of consultation on certain changes and the effect it will have on the quality of their work.
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One worker, a 55-year-old man, who asked not to be named, called the proposals "draconian" and said some people would be losing up to £400 a month from their wages.
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5 Comments
by spondon
Monday, February 18 2013, 12:22PM
“@DerbyResident;"BY redeucing their wages they are technically redundant and should claim accordingly"
Sadly you apear to have little knowledge about labour law and are happy to demonstrate it . I will not debate this with you but if you refer to ACAS publication you will see how silly your assertion actualy is. It is a job that becomes redundant and not people so, if the job and work is still there and needs doing there is therefore no redundancy. Please do a little homework.”
by DerbyResident
Sunday, February 17 2013, 11:38PM
“BY redeucing their wages they are technically redundant and should claim accordingly”
by pystil
Saturday, February 16 2013, 5:22PM
“Time to look for another job. If these care workers are really united they should walk into their office and give a two week notice of resigning. This may bring the authorities to their senses, but also risks having no job and the ramifications of that.”
by spondon
Saturday, February 16 2013, 3:48PM
“The plight of these dedicated workers is a direct result of the way sucessive governments have put finance before care. Only the care and compassion of these people lies between some of their clients and a life of degradation and misery or a hospital ward. Many of the people with learning difficulties rely on these dedicated professional carers to give them a sense of belonging and dignity in an often uncaring world. To impose (consultation is another word for imposition) changes in shifts, start and finishes away from home area, increased hours at no extra pay and a reduction in earnings is an insult to them. To reduce an already low rate of pay is a disgrace to a service that claims to care for its clients and its employees. If these carers leave, and many will, the replacement workers will be untrained, low skilled and underpaid.
Is that what we as a society want to see a brilliant service with profesional workers turned into an adult child minding service? I believe not and hope the employers rethink their proposals and take some of the pain at management level before seeking to hit those at the bottom of the pay scale yet again.”
by HJP1957
Saturday, February 16 2013, 2:38PM
“care wages are pathetic for what we do already with cutting it!!! good luck to this group of carers”