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Letters / Carers deserve better pay

Regarding your article on the recent CoSLA pay offer, when are unions, like my own, Unison, as well as employers, if not society at large, finally going to get out of the dark ages and realise that a percentage wage increase does nothing for the low and lowest paid?

Five per cent of a low wage is still a low wage, especially with inflation at 11per cent and rising.

Why are managerial roles valued more than frontline service delivery? This is an historical lunacy that must stop.

Carers deserve 15 per cent (and/or an annual tax free payment of £2,000), especially given their heroic role during quarantine for the nature of the work they do, day in day out, with what seems, still so little real public recognition, never mind reward.

Is it because it is predominantly women in these roles?  (Although I’ve come across some excellent male carers over the past two years.)

James J Paton
Lerwick

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