On 1st October 2016, all adult social care workers in Scotland are to be paid at least £8.25 per hour. Here, HR and Employment Law director of Peninsula, Alan Price,
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A union is taking a legal case on behalf of home care workers, saying they are paid less than half the minimum wage. Seventeen home care workers employed across the
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More than £44 billion was paid out in bonuses in the last financial year – the highest figure on record. While the average bonus for UK employees was around £1,600,
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The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has increased by a fifth over the past year, official figures show. Just over 900,000 people say they work on a zero-hours basis
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Managers in domiciliary care earn up to 30% less than their care home counterparts according to new research by Croner. The findings come from Croner’s latest salary survey report on
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Junior doctors are proposing to go on strike for a week every month for the rest of the year as the row over a new contract being imposed on them
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The NHS doesn’t have enough nurses, nor are enough being trained to meet future demand. And yet the government has confirmed it is scrapping nursing bursaries, which cover the cost
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Homecare workers continue to receive less than the minimum wage because of the “scandal” of not being paid for the time spent travelling between visits, the Government is being told.
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Workers on Government projects are being exploited across the country, peers have heard, amid calls to further tighten laws against modern slavery. Baroness Young of Hornsey warned many contract and
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Ministers are gearing up to impose a new contract on thousands of junior doctors across England. Sources in Government told the BBC an announcement is expected in the next few
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