Just imagine that you go for a job as a carer (nearly always low paid) then find out you have to pay for your criminal record check (DBS), not your employer! 42% of employers in a recent UNISON survey recharge their employees for these statutory …Read more…
UNISON Survey on the charging of DBS checks to workers closes next Friday 4 August 2023
This is incredible to many people (myself included) that some employers charge their workers the cost of having a DBS check? These are mostly low paid care workers doing difficult jobs and some of them work for different employers, all of whom wa…Read more…
“No worker should have the cost of their DBS check deducted from their payslip…”
It is simply incredible that some employers require DBS checks to be paid by their low paid employees!!!! Congratulations to London UNISON Voluntary organisations branch for their campaigning on this topic and for this new survey of UNISON member…Read more…
UNISON National Labour Link Forum 2022
Picture collage from UNISON Labour Link National Forum which took place on Friday in York. This was the first “in person” Forum since 2019 due to Covid. “Labour Link” is the (voluntary) political fund in UNISON that is affiliated to the Labour Party.&n…Read more…