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17/01/2012
SIPTU Condemns Cutting Of Home Help
Worker's union SIPTU has slammed a proposed 4.5% reduction in home help hours proposed in the Health Service Executive (HSE) Service Plan.
The union said the reduction, published on Monday, "flew in the face" of the Government’s stated commitment to primary care.
Following the HSE announcement SIPTU Sector Organiser, Louise O'Reilly said: "Home helps are central to any primary care strategy. Our elderly people deserve better than this. Home helps are essential if elderly people are to remain in their own homes and are key frontline workers in any HSE Hospital Avoidance Strategy. Those who depend on home help services cannot afford this cut.
"The HSE has not engaged with SIPTU to discuss any contingency plans to manage this latest change in work arrangements for home helps whose hours have already been cut dramatically in the past two years.
"This will mean loss of earnings for our members, some of whom have had their hours cut to as little as two hours per week. It is these low paid workers and the elderly who depend on their services that will bear the brunt of this cruel cut."
(DW/GK)
The union said the reduction, published on Monday, "flew in the face" of the Government’s stated commitment to primary care.
Following the HSE announcement SIPTU Sector Organiser, Louise O'Reilly said: "Home helps are central to any primary care strategy. Our elderly people deserve better than this. Home helps are essential if elderly people are to remain in their own homes and are key frontline workers in any HSE Hospital Avoidance Strategy. Those who depend on home help services cannot afford this cut.
"The HSE has not engaged with SIPTU to discuss any contingency plans to manage this latest change in work arrangements for home helps whose hours have already been cut dramatically in the past two years.
"This will mean loss of earnings for our members, some of whom have had their hours cut to as little as two hours per week. It is these low paid workers and the elderly who depend on their services that will bear the brunt of this cruel cut."
(DW/GK)
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