29-08-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com

Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, TUC finds

TUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in EnglandChronic under-investment, exploitation and low pay is leading to widespread poverty among workers in the care sector, according to damning research from the Trades Union Congress.As it publishes its first workforce blueprint for the care economy, the TUC argues that the “Cinderella sectors” of social car
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