Inadequate response: Prime Minister Boris Johnson
UNION organisation the TUC called on the government today to extend statutory sick pay (SSP) to two million low-paid workers, warning that not doing so would endanger public health.
A poll shows that 85 per cent of the public agrees that statutory sick pay must be increased to a level at which workers in quarantine can survive financially.
According to the TUC, unless the government increases sick pay, workers are likely to ignore quarantine guidelines and go to work in order to pay for food, rent and mortgages — risking the spread of the virus.
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CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart