The UK’s biggest business lobby group has called on the government to relax post-Brexit immigration rules...
Wait, why?
...to help companies struggling with staff shortages to hire more workers from overseas.
Hire British ones instead! Oh, god, it's not the curry houses again, is it?
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said the government needed to immediately update its “shortage occupations list” to include several areas where employers are finding it difficult to recruit staff, including butchers, bricklayers and welders.
Oh! That's some strange collection of occupations there...
Pressure is mounting on hauliers, hospitality venues and the food and drink industry in particular, with companies scrambling to hire staff as pandemic restrictions are relaxed and demand for goods and services returns.
Well, how many unemployed do we have? 1.6 million? I think we can find some there, can't we?
A government spokesperson said: “Employers should invest in our domestic workforce instead of relying on labour from abroad.
The government carefully considered the migration advisory committee’s findings and recommendations on the shortage occupation list, but decided not to make wide-scale changes while we monitor the new skilled worker route and assess how the UK labour market develops and recovers post-pandemic.”
Quite right. Let's use the resources we have, rather than purchasing foreign ones.
One should always have a good welder at hand.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is employers aren't willing to pay a decent enough wage to offset the difference between living on benefits and working.
ReplyDeleteIf your wages can't even cover the rent, they why would you work? Especially if benefits pay the rent and provide spending money on top.
This rush to the bottom regarding wages is now biting employers on the posterior now that the tap of easily available cheap Eastern European labour has been turned off.
Exactly why the working class voted for Brexit in the first place. Of course the downside is rampant inflation as wages and therefore costs rise. But that's already a given thanks to the imprudent printing of money over the decades.
Welcome to what it was like to live in the Seventies all you millenials!