IMPOSING a ban on care home employees working in more than one place without guaranteeing their wages would plunge thousands of low-income families into poverty, public service union Unison warns today.

If the government goes ahead with the legislation, the rule could also cause “disastrous” staff shortages in care homes and put elderly and vulnerable residents at risk, Unison said. 

The union agreed that minimising work in multiple locations was “sensible” to control the spread of Covid-19 infections, but it added that this “cannot be achieved by government diktat.”