The Scottish Government has announced that social care staff working ‘sleepover’ hours are to receive a pay increase, by being paid the Living Wage for all hours, not just non-sleepover hours. The change is reported to be taking place during 2018/19. According to Health Secretary Shona Robison the Scottish Government has worked closely with health and social care partnerships, care providers, trade unions, individuals using services and other stakeholders on this change, and will continue this engagement as partners begin to redesign sleepover provision.
Around 40,000 care workers supporting adults have benefitted from the Scottish Government’s commitment to enable payment of the Living Wage.
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Living Wage Week 2017 30 October 2017
Living Wage Week 2017 runs from 5 November and the movement's annual celebration aims to raise awareness that earning the real Living Wage can make to individuals.
On Monday 6 November the new Living Wage rates will be announced for London and the rest of the UK. Events take place all over the country to celebrate the impact and success of the living wage and to encourage more people to join the fight against low pay.
The real living wage is the only rate that is independently calculated every year to meet the real cost of living. It is voluntary, unlike the national minimum and living wage rates which are statutory. Current rates are:
National minimum wage (under 25s) £7.05 per hour National living wage (25 and over) £7.50 per hour Real living wage (18 and over) £8.45 per hour in the UK, £9.75 in London
In 2001 families came together and started a campaign to be paid a real Living Wage. Since then hundreds of thousands of families have benefited and been able to earn a wage they can live on through over 3,500 employers paying all their staff and relevant contractors the real Living Wage.
However there is still much work to be done to ensure that everyone who works for a living earns enough to live on.
Have your say about the importance of the Living Wage to the choices you make as a consumer, and what difference you think paying the Living Wage makes to people's lives, by completing this opinion survey .
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Sleep-in shift pay compliance scheme launched 3 November 2017
The government has launched a new compliance scheme for social care providers that may have incorrectly paid workers below legal minimum wage hourly rates for sleep-in shifts.
The scheme has been designed to help ensure workers are paid what they are owed, while also maintaining important services for people who access social care
Social care employers will be able to opt into the new Social Care Compliance Scheme (SCCS), giving them up to a year to identify what they owe to workers, supported by advice from HMRC. Employers who identify arrears at the end of the self-review period will have up to three months to pay workers. HMRC will write to social care employers who currently have a complaint against them for allegedly underpaying minimum wage rates for sleep-in shifts to encourage them to sign up to the scheme. Employers that choose not to opt into the scheme will be subject to HMRC’s normal enforcement approach.
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