A new report from UNISON highlights how care staff are propping up a crumbling care system and calls for the government to end the exploitation they face.
* A recruitment agent in India asking care workers for a £12,000 introduction fee to a UK employer.
* A care employer demanding £4,000 for ‘training costs’
* Migrant workers charged £395 admin fees for a ‘cultural induction’. – Companies passing on Home * Office charges to staff that employers should be paying such as the immigration skills charge
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Many care workers are being lured to the UK and then given no choice but to accept poor working conditions when they get here.
Current immigration rules make it hard for care staff to leave a job unless they can find a new sponsor.
UNISON has uncovered cases where overseas workers have sold all they own to come here, only for their care employer to close down, lose their council contract or sack staff on baseless grounds.
And there is evidence of migrant care staff forced to work shifts lasting 19 hours without breaks, who have experienced racial abuse, and been threatened with dismissal and deportation.