Retailer is luring staff with 30% higher wages, while some workers object to the care sector’s ‘no jab, no job’ policy
Care workers are quitting to become Amazon warehouse pickers and for other better-paid jobs in a growing staffing crisis which operators now warn could leave 170,000 vacancies by the end of the year.
In a further blow to the care sector, NHS figures published this week revealed slowing rates of double Covid vaccination among care home staff, with 87,000 in England still not fully jabbed. From November, they will have to be fully vaccinated against the virus in order to carry out frontline work.
