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To: Liverpool City Council
Care workers demand a pay rise
Liverpool care workers demand that Liverpool City Council honour their previous commitment to paying the foundation living wage by April 2024.
Why is this important?
Wirral, St Helens, Knowsley and Sefton Councils have now committed to paying their care workers the foundation living wage. This leaves Liverpool and Halton Council as the only regional Councils within Merseyside who have not committed to this action. As a result, care workers in these areas are being paid as little as the National Minimum Wage, which does not reflect the importance of the work they carry out in supporting their service users.
We want Liverpool to be a place where our service users receive the highest quality of care, and paying care workers a fair wage is a step to ensuring this.
The poor pay that many care workers receive is causing specialised staff to leave the sector, or move to other surrounding Councils where they are able to receive a higher wage. This is unfair to the staff and the service users within Liverpool, and they deserve better. A commitment to paying the foundation living wage will be a step in the right direction to solving the crisis within social care that currently exists in our city.
We want Liverpool to be a place where our service users receive the highest quality of care, and paying care workers a fair wage is a step to ensuring this.
The poor pay that many care workers receive is causing specialised staff to leave the sector, or move to other surrounding Councils where they are able to receive a higher wage. This is unfair to the staff and the service users within Liverpool, and they deserve better. A commitment to paying the foundation living wage will be a step in the right direction to solving the crisis within social care that currently exists in our city.
