Unemployment soars in Britain

As the unemployment figure reaches it’s 17-year high at 2.69m, the state of the UK job market seems dire, except that 2,400 vacancy adverts are being posted on Romanian recruitments websites for skilled workers, such as chefs, engineers and nurses. The online recruitment site, www.tjobs.ro, states that UK companies are advertising 2,434 jobs for Romanian workers, and similarly, German companies are posting 2,387 jobs in a bid to fill placements.

In Britain, the migrant workers row has been raging for many years and this information is likely to fuel the fire, especially as the jobs that are being offered include care-assistant jobs, doctors, hotel jobs and taxi driver jobs worth £2,000-a-month. The figures show that more than 160,000 Brits in the last five years have lost out to foreign workers. For every four new immigrants that enter the UK, a Brit loses their place in the job market, although this evidence is argued that the figures of migrant workers do not have any impact on the unemployment figures.

Company bosses claim that the UK unemployed population have a poor work ethic and don’t want to work compared to foreign workers, and have a worse attitude to working which is why migrant workers’ jobs are usually more secure. It’s said that many young applicants either don’t want to work or fail to turn up to interviews, and therefore aren’t given the job. Using the excuse of foreign workers affecting the unemployment figures is unacceptable as it’s more about the positivity of the foreign workers’ attitude, hard-working nature and their punctuality that lands them the job. Many business owners and bosses would hire Brits if they would receive applications from them, but there is a lack of willing and effort in finding a job that puts Brits out of the running for many jobs.