Abstract
In this booklet, Dr Lydia Hayes sets out the lessons learned from her interdisciplinary research into the social care sector, and builds upon the recommendations made in the Institute of Employment Rights' Manifesto for Labour Law: a comprehensive revision of worker’s rights to propose a sectoral collective bargaining structure for the negotiation of wages and conditions.
Highlights
This publication, like all publications of the Institute, represents not the collective views of the Institute but only the views of the author
By sharing some of that book’s findings, this booklet identifies the enormous benefits that collective bargaining could bring to both adult social care workers and the people for whom they care
Good quality jobs are desperately needed in adult social care
Summary
The limitation of individual legal rights for adult social care workers is ably demonstrated in relation to the case of Whittlestone v BJP Home Support.[58]. In the absence of sectoral collective bargaining, care workers are ignored.[63] Governments design laws and manage public finances in ways which respond to the interests of the powerful It is through membership of trade unions that working people have been able to build the power needed to achieve social change. The Canadian example shows that collective bargaining in adult social care cannot be maximally effective unless it is industry-wide and includes all care workers without prejudice to those who are working in private homes, or on casual contracts, or employed directly by older and disabled people or those who are classified as self-employed even though they provide a personal service. Purpose and Scope’ (2004) 20 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 81; F Fakhfakh et al ‘Workplace Change and Productivity: Does Employee Voice make a difference? in S Hayter (ed) The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy; M Lawrence and C McMeill (2014) Fair Shares: Shifting the Balance of Power in the Workplace to Boost Productivity and Pay (IPPR)
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