{"id":81753,"date":"2025-05-07T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/81753\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:47:18","slug":"tile-charity-calls-for-employment-rights-bill-to-go-further-in-supporting-unpaid-carers-to-balance-paid-work-and-unpaid-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/81753\/","title":{"rendered":"Tile Charity Calls For Employment Rights Bill To Go Further In Supporting Unpaid Carers To Balance Paid Work And Unpaid Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Employment Rights Bill progresses through Committee Stage in the House of Lords, Carers UK is calling for Government to introduce measures within the Bill which would go further in supporting the 2.3 million employees balancing paid work with unpaid caring responsibilities for their disabled, older or ill relatives and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Two key amendments to the Bill have been tabled, backed by Peers from different parties which, if successful, would increase unpaid carers\u2019 support in the workplace. One amendment would change unpaid carers\u2019 current right to unpaid leave to be made a paid leave entitlement. The other amendment would require employers with over 250 employees to consider what support unpaid carers are given in their workforce when publishing equality action plans.<\/p>\n<p>Paid Carer\u2019s Leave would make a significant difference to those on low incomes, particularly women. 80% of workers say it would better help them to balance work and care. Carers UK modelling estimates that this would only cost between \u00a35.5 million and \u00a332 million a year to deliver, but would ultimately save billions by increasing productivity and supporting carers to remain in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Walker, Chief Executive of Carers UK, said:<\/strong><br \/>\u201cEvery year the UK economy loses an estimated \u00a337 billion due to unpaid carers being unable to work. Without adequate support, carers are often left with no choice but to give up paid work to care, impacting their own financial security and resulting in a loss of valuable skills and experience for employers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bill contains some welcome measures to help unpaid carers, including stronger rights to flexible working, but we need to be ambitious for further change. There is a clear opportunity to lay the foundations for paid Carer\u2019s Leave, which is critical for those unable to take up their existing, unpaid rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarers who fall out of employment are at far higher risk of poverty and long-term financial hardship. We are encouraging this Government to use the positive momentum of the Carer\u2019s Leave Act and go one step further to increase help for carers able to juggle work and care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"OTMsNSwxLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/thecareruk.com\/recommends\/oneadvancedbanner25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:1px solid #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OA-AI-Web-Banner-580px-x-80px.jpg\" alt=\"OneAdvanced\" width=\"580px\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"OTAsNSwxLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/thecareruk.com\/recommends\/chsabanner325\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image003.gif\" alt=\"CHSA\" width=\"580px\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"OTIsNSwxLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/thecareruk.com\/recommends\/sesbanner425\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SESLogo-1536x217-1.webp.webp\" alt=\"Banner\" style=\"width: 580px; height: 80px;\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"OTEsNSwxLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/thecareruk.com\/recommends\/compleatbanner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Carer-Ad-v3.png\" alt=\"Compleat\" width=\"580px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Employment Rights Bill progresses through Committee Stage in the House of Lords, Carers UK is calling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,14338,39651,39652,897,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-81753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-care","10":"tag-care-staff","11":"tag-carers","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114466393276427167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}