- Conference
- 2023 National Community Conference and Seminar
- Date
- 10 November 2022
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Conference, it cannot be right, that employees within social care with increasing rent/mortgage payments, fuel, food and utilities, can be left when they fall ill on £100 a week.
This is totally unacceptable.
Everyone in this room will know someone working in the social care sector, that has fallen ill and has reached crisis point because of the lack of income.
We call on the Community Service Group Executive to;
1. continue to support branches and regions to build membership across the sector, with a focus on workplaces with low membership, and lack of UNISON organisation
2. continue to assist representatives with organising in their workplaces and putting into place negotiating forums
3. work with all regions and branches and give guidance and support to help representatives in negotiations on absence policies and rates of sick pay
4. call for a piece of work, reviewing and creating good practise guides for representatives when negotiation/creating absence policies.