Under pressure due to the crisis in social care, the government has announced that staff can self-certify if they believe they have a medical exemption or if they are pregnant,
Social care
Parliament has approved regulations that will make Covid vaccination compulsory for people who work in care homes.
UNISON supports the vaccination programme, but evidence suggests persuasion is better than compulsion.
Supreme Court rules that care workers who provide ‘sleep-in’ shifts are not entitled to the legal minimum wage.
The government has consulted on plans to stop care workers in nursing and residential homes from being able to have multiple jobs. Many low-paid care workers rely on multiple jobs to pay the bills. Covid has exposed the failings in our fragmented social care system which is why we need a national care service.
The government is proposing to ban care workers from having multiple jobs, despite many relying on second jobs due to low pay, low hours and casual contracts
The time for talking is over. A national care service is the only way to prevent more deaths. We need a resilient system, like the NHS.