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A care home worker in Salford has claimed she was hospitalised due to a "panic attack" over unpaid wages.
Care assistant Titilope Erinfolami, 30, works at Laburnum Court Care Home in Broughton, Salford, which is due to close. She and other workers have not been paid wages or redunancy payouts and are unable to accept new jobs for fear of losing what they are owed - a situation that has been described as a 'scandal'.
Titilope claims she is owed nearly £600 from her employer and is behind on bills, having to borrow money to pay for her bus ticket to work. The last update she received from the company was on February 7, she said.
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After being told that there was nothing that could be done to help get her wages, she suffered a panic attack and ended up in Fairfield General Hospital on January 31, she claims. Workers at the care home, which is owned by Belz Care Limited, have been holding protests about how they have been treated after a number of staff claimed to have been underpaid.
Last month, the company told the MEN that there were "issues with payroll" but that any "shortfalls were paid". That time, Salford council stepped in to help pay the company pay its workers their salaries.
Ms Erinfolami said: "My payment is missing 55 hours which is almost £600, which has set me back a lot on my bills. We've not been paid since January after the last payment we got, our accrued holidays, nothing.
"The council paid us last time to safeguard the residents but now all the residents are out and the council are not willing to pay us now, they want us to claim from the government which could take weeks.
"Last week I spoke to
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