Hancock: care workers can’t have ‘Real Living Wage’ – but let’s remember he offered them a nice badge
Up your…: last week, Matt Hancock offered carers… a badge. This is what they said he could do with it.
Right after offering carers a badge instead of genuine government investment, Matt Hancock has denied them the real living wage.
Let’s clarify, quickly: the real living wage is a wage that covers real living expenses, and is currently set at £10.75 in London and £9.30 in the rest of the UK for anybody aged 18 and older.
Hancock came out with the mealy-mouthed excuse that carers are already paid the National Living Wage, which is only £8.21 – and applicable only to people aged over 25. It doesn’t cover the cost of living, meaning its description as a “living wage” is false.
And let’s remember that MP’s have been given an extra £10,000 – above their already-enormous salaries – to help them work at home, which is something carers do all the time.
What a charmer.
Hancock was responding to SNP health spokesperson Dr Philippa Whitford who pointed out that carers in Scotland are already paid the real living wage and asked when the Tory government would do the same for those in England.
She also asked him to reverse a 20 per cent cut in public health funding imposed by the Tories in 2015 – but that didn’t even get a response.
It seems the only hand Hancock has for carers is when he’s clapping for them on his doorstep – if he ever bothers.
Source: Matt Hancock refuses to commit to paying care workers the ‘Real Living Wage’ – Welfare Weekly
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Once we are able, the issue of pay for the currently low-paid- but- essential workers should become a major campaigning theme.
We don’t need to be members of the Labour Party to do this. Indeed, it is often better to campaign separately rather than rely on an elusive General Election win to achieve our aims.
For me ,I will remain a Labour member but I will campaign as an individual in other movements as well.
Tory’s will never give a proper living wage they look down at the peasants has if you muck on their shoes
I have posted on both my Blogs
Carer Voice – https://carervoice.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/matt-hancock-refuses-to-commit-to-paying-care-workers-the-real-living-wage/
and 61chrissterry – https://61chrissterry.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/matt-hancock-refuses-to-commit-to-paying-care-workers-the-real-living-wage-carer-voice/
Also quoting my petition ‘Solve the crisis in Social Care’
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/solve-the-crisis-in-social-care