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Boosting sick pay during the pandemic would have helped prevent virus spread

Increasing sick pay would undoubtedly have helped prevent virus spread. "Matt Hancock claimed the infection control […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.
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Lessons must be learned from government’s pandemic care home policy, says UNISON

Lives were needlessly lost because ministers effectively abandoned staff and residents.  “Many care workers had to make their own safety kit from bin […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.
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Care bosses taking home 13 times wages of workers, says UNISON report

The 43-page report​ – Held to Ransom​ – reveals workers and the people they support​, including the elderly and those with disabilities, are paying the […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.
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Blog: Matt Hancock made for grim listening at the COVID Inquiry

He found the levers to make vaccination mandatory for care workers, but not sick pay. Even now, when the time is right for self-reflection […]

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.
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