Pay carers allowance at minimum wage of £7.20 per hour NOT £62.10 per week...

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

Full time carers can not work due to looking after sick, venerable people. They work long hours for £62.10 a week...you upped the minimum wage to £7.20 and you should be paying full time carers this amount is money due to lack of care staff in the NHS...we work long hours and never have a day off!!!

Full time carers are the hardest working people you will meet. We are on call 24hrs a day 365 days a year....The government think it's OK that us carers work for 49pence an hour as the NHS are overloaded... I think we as full time carers should be getting at least the minimum wage of £7.20 not £62.10 a week.. We can not get a job as we already have one looking after vulnerable people we love. We didn't ask for them to be ill, sick or dying but we care for them because the government doesn't care

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Make being a home carer a legally recognized, properly paid job

Timeline

4 Apr 2016	Petition opened for signatures
7 Apr 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19

Status Rejected

Rejected 7 Apr 2016

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