UK care workers use up leave to avoid losing pay while sick with Covid Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
Some UK care workers are having to take holiday when they are off sick with Covid or see already low wages fall to £96 per week, raising fears they may not self-isolate.
Staff on the minimum wage claim to have been offered only statutory sick pay when ill with Covid or self-isolating. This contravenes government policy that they should be paid in full to limit infection spread.
One care worker involved in an ongoing outbreak at a nursing home involving several fatalities told the Guardian the employer does not provide sick pay, so the worker and other infected colleagues had to take holiday to prevent their earnings falling. One colleague took holiday pay to maintain earnings while very ill with Covid in intensive care, the care worker said.
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On my radar: Karl Ove Knausgaard s cultural highlights Killian Fox © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian author, born in 1968, who lives in London and Sweden. He gained worldwide fame, and notoriety, with his six-volume series of autobiographical novels entitled
My Struggle (or
Min Kamp in Norwegian), which dissected his life and relationships in often merciless detail. The
Wall Street Journal described him as “one of the 21st-century’s greatest literary sensations”. He is also the author of the
Seasons Quartet and, most recently, the essay collection (translated by Martin Aitken)
1. Novel
A baby girl toddles down the pavement, stopping only to squeeze a drop of sanitiser on to her hands and rub them carefully together. Except she’s not stopping at hand-gel pumps. She’s pushing hopefully at garden walls, street lights, ventilation grilles on the side of buildings – anything that catches the eye of a resourceful toddler, raised in a time when washing away the virus is as natural a part of life as nap time. A video of her doing it.