Speakers highlight how national minimum wage and national living wage rates are not keeping up with inflation, and say that poor sick pay means sick workers going to work
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Minimum wage rise – low-income families need boost now
Extra cash is little comfort after universal credit cut and national insurance rise
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Exploitation of care workers must end, says UNISON
Labour’s move to close legal loophole is welcome
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UNISON urges councils to ensure care staff are properly paid
Call comes after the government ‘names and shames’ companies in England and Wales for flouting minimum wage legislation
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‘We won’t rest until we win’
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady gave a powerful opening speech this morning (September 14) of the first day of the first online-only Congress in the union confederation’s 152 year history….Read more…
New minimum wages rates take effect from today
New minimum pay rates come into force for many key workers, including care staff
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One wage for all ages
Great photo of our former UNISON Housing Associations branch manager & organiser, Josephine Grahl, with Jez and Dave Prentis, celebrating 20 years of National Minimum wage (and campaigning for all workers to be paid the same)
Josephine is now…Read more…
One wage for all ages
UNISON launches #OneWageAnyWage campaign is it celebrates 20 years of the national minimum wage
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Blog: Fighting for a real Living Wage for all, 20 years on from the National Minimum Wage
Twenty years on from the bold, landmark decision to establish a National Minimum Wage, it is time for a new landmark – a real Living Wage for all, regardless of age, that everyone in work can afford…Read more…
UNISON urges vigilance as new minimum wages rates are due
Union says stewards need to make sure employers are paying the proper amounts when the new wage rates come into force on 1 April
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UNISON puts pressure on Treasury to increase universal credit work allowance
The government must reverse its cuts to universal credit so that workers are allowed to keep more of the money they earn every month, says UNISON today (Thursday). Millions of workers on the minimum…Read more…
Bolton members vote to strike over pay equality
Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco
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Bolton hospital workers to ballot on action for pay parity
Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise
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UNISON seeks leave to appeal on sleep-in case
‘We believe the Court of Appeal got this decision completely wrong and will do everything we can to reverse it’
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“Sleep-in shifts judgment is a huge mistake”
This judgement is bad news for hundreds of thousands of low paid care workers (including my
niece).
Being paid not even the national minimum wage for work is simply a disgrace. I hope UNISON lawyers can find a way forward on this.
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Why national minimum wage needs to rise to £10
A report published this week shows how a rise in the minimum wage would see 9 million workers better off. And that can only be good for the country, Unite director of research John Earls writes….Read more…
The difference a Living Wage makes
One in five people working in the UK do not earn enough to live on – that’s about 5m people earning below the Living Wage, a rate calculated by an independent foundation to reflect the real cost of…Read more…
Are you receiving universal credit? Have your say
UNISON is looking for people who are on the national minimum wage – currently £7.50 an hour – and who also get universal credit
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Low paid care workers told to wait for back pay
Care workers owed up to six years’ back pay after being paid below the minimum wage will have to wait until October for the money they are owed after a government announcement today
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Care companies must pay back pay to staff who do sleep-ins, says UNISON
Charities and care companies that have paid staff one-off payments for overnight sleep-ins should not be exempt from paying the national minimum wage, says UNISON. Claims for back pay could cost the…Read more…