Trade unions: 'Remove profit from home care'
“There are concerns around precarious contracts of employment. Hourly rates start from just above minimum wages rates. Staff have limited if any access to sick pay, maternity pay and pensions,” Siptu organiser Damian Ginley said of the private home care sector.
Trade unions have warned that sparse regulation and bargaining power in the for-profit home care sector is fuelling a “race to the bottom” of pay and working conditions for carers.
It is also contributing to the current home care “recruitment crisis”, they claimed.
