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[Witton Park]

Post Brexit, the need for care and nhs workers for example has grown massively, with hundreds of thousands of visas granted to overseas employees willing to do the work (many from India, Nigeria and South Africa). Yeah the conservatives massively not knowing what the heck they were doing and massively underfunding these services didn’t help but they had far more important jingoism and cronyism to be getting on with

Well that's an opinion, that I would call a sub-optimal option.

A better option, would be to use the people already here.

[Fellbeast]

Well that's an opinion, that I would call a sub-optimal option.

A better option, would be to use the people already here.

The jobs don’t pay enough though do they? And the tories wanted to spend less, not more and drive jobs into the ground in applying stress and thumbscrews for ever more perceived/imaginary efficiency. And for care workers, giving their largely private business employers more would’ve just increased profits, and not increased pay anyway

[Witton Park]

The jobs don’t pay enough though do they?

I'm not just talking about the lower paid jobs. I'm, also talking about GPs and Consultants. We have GPs reducing hours to 3 or 4 day weeks because of the tax implications of going over £100k per annum.

We are also watering down the standards.

We have seen the introduction of plastic bobbies, and we now have plastic GPs and Consultants, such as the "Physician Associates" that MikeT has previously touched on or pharmacists making medical assessments and handing out prescriptions.

But lower down the pay scale we have a minimum wage in this country and practically every day we use services or buy goods from folk who are working on or around minimum wage.

If you work a full time 40 hour week now on Minimum Wage you will be earning £457.60 pw gross.

Now if that is enough for burger flippers, binmen, factory workers for John Lewis making curtains and blinds, then how come it isn't enough for care workers?

It is.

And we need to do something to try and get the 10 million part-time workers to do more hours and the 6 million people of working age that are economically inactive to be more engaged with the workplace than what we are.

https://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/show...l=1#post686328
This was my suggestion to do that.

My proposed MW adjustments would go a long way to resolving issues in the care industry.