Over 100 South Lanarkshire home carers protest outside Council HQ

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Over 100 home carers demonstrated outside South Lanarkshire Council’s headquarters on Wednesday morning.They were staging a protest over pay, demanding the local authority recognise how significantly their job has changed and pay them an appropriate wage.Anger from the workforce stems from the result of a recent job evaluation, in which they requested the council re-examine the grade of their jobs since their workload has increased significantly during Covid.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Now, they are appealing the decision in the hope that the council will reconsider their request.Organised by trade unions Unison and the GMB, a demonstration was held at the council’s base in Hamilton to coincide with Wednesday's full council meeting.Unison representatives met with SLC Leader Joe Fagan and urged him to ensure that the local authority would give urgent attention to the appeal against the job evaluation outcome.Councillor Fagan proposed a motion to ensure the appeal process of the job evaluation is carried out as soon as possible and takes on board the demands of home carers.The Labour man told the full council: “The council will be aware of the outcome of the recent job evaluation in home care and trade union concerns