SAN DIEGO: A homecare worker is calling for a protective charter. David Thomas wants to see homecare workers terms and conditions of employment guaranteed by a “Care Charter”, which would bind all employers to agreed care contracts. It would ensure that homecare workers are paid for the whole time they are at work. He suspects that a number of homecare workers battle exhaustion on a daily basis, and that they thus cannot be as effective at the end of the day as they were at the start.
Care companies that sign up to the Charter could be awarded some kind of gold standard, which would allow homecare workers and residents to be able to tell at a glance that this is a company that values their staff and treats them well, he said…