Man of Honour
those hours sound dreadful
You're dead right there. A first step towards and early grave.
those hours sound dreadful
A care home near me charges £890 per week for some residents.
the care home system is a joke full stop. I deliver medication to care homes and some of the stories i have been told from the nurses is terrible, and what has been said is right, nurses get paid a close to minimum wage as possible for doing work that very few people would do themselves.
Are you sure that's right dude, your not getting care workers and nurses muddled up. I only ask cause around here nurses in care get paid £14 per hour, and carer's get minimum wage.
How can someone get out of this job?
It's care work doing 48 hours a week 7:00am - 9:30pm 7 days a week. Problem is it's split shift which wasn't advertised/agreed to during the interview and only revealed after the training.
The split shifts are stupid, work for 2 hours then a break of 2 hours or 1 hour etc. It adds up to over 100 hours a week if you include the little breaks which are unpaid.
They want £380 training fees if you quit within the first six months (this wasn't mentioned until after the training).
Any thoughts? Who else works split shifts?
The legal number of hours between shifts is determined by the Working Time Regulations 1998. They state that the minimum rest period in a 24-hour period should not be less than eleven consecutive hours. In brief, workers are entitled to at least 11 hours rest per day, at least one day off each week and a rest break during the shift if it is longer than six hours.
This is one thing that actually baffles me about our monetary system.
I know it's because no body wants to do them, that it's the 'bottom end' (and I use that term incredibly loosely and not at all in a detrimental way) of society (e.g. cleaners, bin-men, carers), that is, the people who fell through the cracks that tend to take this jobs as a last resort and hence get paid so poorly, but surely it makes more sense to pay people more for doing the jobs that no-one wants to do? There are thousands of middle-management jobs that does nothing but paper-push yet find themselves paid above average.
You couldn't pay me 40k pa to scrub poo for a living. So why does paying minimum wage (which is realistically worse than that if you're on part-time hours) make any sense?
Split shifts and zero hour contracts should be illegal. Alas!
My advice is to avoid if at all possible as it will effect your health in the long run.
This is one thing that actually baffles me about our monetary system.
I know it's because no body wants to do them, that it's the 'bottom end' (and I use that term incredibly loosely and not at all in a detrimental way) of society (e.g. cleaners, bin-men, carers), that is, the people who fell through the cracks that tend to take this jobs as a last resort and hence get paid so poorly, but surely it makes more sense to pay people more for doing the jobs that no-one wants to do? There are thousands of middle-management jobs that does nothing but paper-push yet find themselves paid above average.
You couldn't pay me 40k pa to scrub poo for a living. So why does paying minimum wage (which is realistically worse than that if you're on part-time hours) make any sense?
It's something I've noticed as I have moved up the pay scales.It's a ****ed up world. Care workers are just used and abused, hence why some go off the rails.
My sister works in care. She looks after mentally handicapped people (has to wipe their asses and stuff...), some are violent etc, and she gets less then 7 quid an hour..
I make more in a day then she will in 2 weeks. It's shameful really.
Should being the key word, across two large energy companies & one of the largest insurance providers I've seen countless staff members doing jobs for £30/40k+ which a trained monkey could do.Middle management jobs should involve people who have the necessary skills and experience, meaning there are fewer people able to do it ergo higher pay.
Are split shifts actually illegal then?