Crawley Council: Sick Pay Now!
Channel: ReelNews
Date: 2018-11-29

Workers doing social housing repairs for Crawley Council are not getting sick pay. The contractors, Mears Ltd and MITIE Property Services, pay their office staff sick pay, as do the Council for directly employed staff - but the trades people who go out to people's houses to do repairs get nothing for the first three days sick, and then just Statutory Sick Pay after that. UNITE are now demanding that the Council rectifies this discriminatory practise - or they could be facing a ballot for industrial action.