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• Environment Agency unions seek meeting on ‘indefensible’ pay offer

  13-08-2021 15:34
  
  UNISON and the other trade unions representing Environment Agency staff are seeking an urgent meeting with environment secretary George Eustice, to discuss the ‘indefensible’ pay offer to their members.
  In a strongly-worded letter today, the unions assert that: “It will be a source of national embarrassment that, with the UK government hosting world leaders at COP26 in Glasgow later this year, you are failing to invest in the very staff who will play a key role in delivering UK
  
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• UNISON urges councils to ensure care staff are properly paid

  13-08-2021 14:01
  
  UNISON is urging councils in England and Wales to be “far more proactive” in ensuring that there is a high standard of homecare provision in their local area, after details emerged of five businesses that have been flouting minimum wage law.
  The care companies that have been ‘named and shamed’ by the government include:Millennium Care Ltd of Neath Port Talbot – commissioned by Neath Port Talbot Council – failed to pay £28,871.77 to 40 workers;
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