Careworkers in Khayelitsha march for better working conditions
About 300 community careworkers marched from Day Hospital in Site B Khayeltisha to the health district offices demanding better working conditions.
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Care-workers march for better salaries
About 100 community health workers marched through the streets of Cape Town to the Western Cape Department of Health to demand better working conditions.
Careworkers march for better working conditions
Workers from the National Union of Care Workers of South Africa marched from Bisho Stadium to the offices of the Eastern Cape Department of Health to highlight the poor conditions that care workers work under, especially the issue of working discontinuously for years under contracts.
Eastern Cape care-worker with two dependents live on a R1,190 stipend
Nokhaya earns a R1,190 stipend which she does not receive every month. When her stipend is not paid, she manages to continue work anyway. In those parched months her family relies on a R350 child support grant.
Careworkers demand better working conditions
Care workers are classified by their employers as volunteers and not employees. As such, the proposed minimum wage does not cover them. They get paid less than R2,000 a month. If they fall pregnant, women are forced to quit their jobs or take unpaid leave.
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