GMB News - Care Home Professional

Care home sector facing ‘mass exodus’ due to mandatory jab legislation, union warns

Care home groups Human Resources Operators People Recruitment by Lee Peart on August 4, 2021

The care home sector is facing a ‘mass exodus’ of around 70,000 workers due to mandatory COVID legislation, the GMB has warned. The union said the decision to force staff vaccination would exacerbate recruitment shortages

Carers suffer more than 6,000 violent attacks, union reveals

Business Human Resources People Research by Lee Peart on June 11, 2019

Care workers suffered more than 6,000 violent attacks over the last five years, figures released by the GMB Union reveal.

Trade Union demands Birmingham care provider scraps restructuring plans

Care home groups by Andrew Seymour on April 20, 2016

GMB, the union for care workers, is calling on care provider Country Court Care to reconsider a restructure plan at

Avery Healthcare faces legal action from female carers demanding equal pay to men

Business Compliance Legal Advice Legislation by Rob Corder on March 22, 2016

Female employees working at Avery Healthcare are taking their legal dispute to secure equal pay to their male equivalents to the

Rise in bed blocking blamed on government cuts to social care budgets

Funding Research by Rob Corder on February 17, 2016

Analysis of NHS statistics by the GMB union has found that bed blocking in English hospitals has increased by 26%

Respublica predicts a Care Collapse with 37,000 homeless residents by 2020

Business Finance Fundraising Research by Rob Corder on January 13, 2016

Public policy think tank Respublica has said that a funding crisis in the elderly care market will cause the loss of 37,000 care home beds by 2020/21 in the authority-funded sector. Private providers are not