Millions of staff secretly juggle busy jobs with demanding caring duties that need more recognition, says the Financial Times’ Pilita Clark.
Almost overnight it seemed every second person I knew in their 40s or 50s was struggling toThere was the man who was chewed out by his boss over a work glitch as he rushed about a hospital abroad trying to organise care for his 70-something mother after she had a fall.
The striking thing was not that all this care was being done. As people live longer, they inevitably need help from relatives who want to give it. They repeatedly took vacation time for caring that was not remotely like the holiday a lot of them very much needed. “I’m going to be totally burnt out,” he said. “Managers should know what’s going on in people’s lives.”
It took until this year for the UK parliament to pass the Carers Leave Act, which allows one week’s unpaid leave a year for workers caring for a relative or dependant. One week wouldn’t be enough for the carers I know, but the new law should still make a big difference.
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