Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on care workers employed in clients’ own homes recognising the skills and responsibilities of home-based care workers. Design/methodology/approach – Interviews and focus groups with domiciliary care workers in New Zealand centred on what these employees actually do during their working day. Findings – Home-based care workers require the same skills as residential care workers, but they also have greater responsibilities and receive less supervision and support, as they work largely in isolation. In addition, they must spend a large part of their working day travelling between clients: this time is unpaid, and brings their average hourly pay below the minimum wage. Practical implications – Although the home-based care workers who took part in this project love and are committed to making a positive difference to their clients, they also want the government, employers and the public to recognise their skills, efforts and their challenging working conditions. Originality/value – In earlier days of deinstitutionalisation, Graham described caring work as a “labour of love”. More than three decades years later, a New Zealand government minister described paid care workers as working partly “for love”. Care work is also currently perceived as unskilled. Both these perceptions depress the pay and working conditions of care staff, and in future may undermine the quality of care delivered to vulnerable clients.

<p>Compared to simple mirrors, meta-mirrors have the ability to conserve the polarization of incident light in reflection. In previous decade, a lot of meta-mirrors designed for various applications. In this paper, a meta-mirror is demonstrated to simultaneously conserve the polarization of incident light and the circular dichroism.  A conventional chiral structure is used to design the meta-mirror in microwave regime. The chiral structure is C2-symmetric (breaking the rotational and mirror symmetries) for chirality inclusion into the meta-mirror. The design methodology uses the principle of febry-perot cavity which includes a sandwiched geometry. The substrate used to design the structure is Roger 5880 (a low-loss material at higher frequency bands) with copper material for chiral structure and back reflector.  Moreover, the meta-mirror shows the insensitivity towards incident angle of light. This meta-mirror can have a lot of applications in optical setup, communication, chiral absorption, spin-dependent reflections etc.  </p>

<p>Compared to simple mirrors, meta-mirrors have the ability to conserve the polarization of incident light in reflection. In previous decade, a lot of meta-mirrors designed for various applications. In this paper, a meta-mirror is demonstrated to simultaneously conserve the polarization of incident light and the circular dichroism.  A conventional chiral structure is used to design the meta-mirror in microwave regime. The chiral structure is C2-symmetric (breaking the rotational and mirror symmetries) for chirality inclusion into the meta-mirror. The design methodology uses the principle of febry-perot cavity which includes a sandwiched geometry. The substrate used to design the structure is Roger 5880 (a low-loss material at higher frequency bands) with copper material for chiral structure and back reflector.  Moreover, the meta-mirror shows the insensitivity towards incident angle of light. This meta-mirror can have a lot of applications in optical setup, communication, chiral absorption, spin-dependent reflections etc.  </p>

<p>Compared to simple mirrors, meta-mirrors have the ability to conserve the polarization of incident light in reflection. In previous decade, a lot of meta-mirrors designed for various applications. In this paper, a meta-mirror is demonstrated to simultaneously conserve the polarization of incident light and the circular dichroism.  A conventional chiral structure is used to design the meta-mirror in microwave regime. The chiral structure is C2-symmetric (breaking the rotational and mirror symmetries) for chirality inclusion into the meta-mirror. The design methodology uses the principle of febry-perot cavity which includes a sandwiched geometry. The substrate used to design the structure is Roger 5880 (a low-loss material at higher frequency bands) with copper material for chiral structure and back reflector.  Moreover, the meta-mirror shows the insensitivity towards incident angle of light. This meta-mirror can have a lot of applications in optical setup, communication, chiral absorption, spin-dependent reflections etc.  </p>