Newcross Healthcare charged employees even after absence for car crash injuries
One of Britain’s biggest providers of agency care workers has been fining staff who phone in sick £50, raising concerns that frontline employees are being forced to turn up for shifts when they are not fit for work and risk spreading illnesses to vulnerable patients.
An investigation by the Guardian has uncovered evidence of cases in which Newcross Healthcare Solutions has failed to pay its employees if they cancel shifts because of illness without 24 hours’ notice, and has also docked money from their pay.
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An employee who said they they were laughed at on the phone and had their wages docked after crashing their car on the way to a shift, suffering serious injuries.
A pregnant worker who had to call in sick with vertigo meaning she was unable to drive an hour and a half to a shift was fined wages even after obtaining a doctor’s note.
A former worker claimed staff incurred the charge after missing shifts because of a cancer scare.
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