Businesses always find an excuse to pay the lowest wage possible.

The current employment structure of temp workers, zero hour contracts will ensure they fill posts without consequence.

They'll probably use "skills shortage" as an excuse to force the training costs onto the employees.

So positive news then as a majority of 6 out of 10 don't have a problem. Maybe the other 4 need to speak to them to see how it's done

But engineers are the future of this world.

OMG what will the curry houses do if they can't bring in their family members!!!!!?!?????!?!

because if someone had sufficient self- discipline to complete a degree, then basic things, like turning up for work on time and doing one's best is pretty likely.

and also, if the hope is to eventually train up someone to a more managerial role, again the more educated person is a likelier bet.

I wish punctuation and grammar was still taught to whatever level of education students attained. A lack of it in any circumstances would exclude you from being a fruit-picker, in my book.

I always remember a professor at the local uni, he had a phd or two and a plethora of papers published and was a world renowned expert in his subject but he couldn't tie his shoe laces he always had on velcro trainers.

Paper qualifications might be nice but if i'm paying someone to pick fruit and veg i want the fastest person who's safe with a blade not some idiot who while good on paper needs a lot of help to do anything more than breathe.

Must be the apprentice of the Theengineer, same rubbish , different originator!

I hope you have some evidence for that claim as in my experience, employers tend to avoid people who are overqualified for fear of them leaving as soon as something better comes along.

For punishment you are required to have some more brandy* and even more mince pies, that'll teach you



Bah Humbug



* or sherry, obviously. Or 'and' instead of 'or'...

Why exactly?

They have a global market to choose from

I am the only one this made laugh.

tahiti I am going to make the rather safe bet that in the field of hiring people to do fruit picking you have not the faintest idea what you are talking about.

That or a new tag team approach.

Oh I am way ahead of you there
PS red wine is my tipple of choice.

The truth of it is that 4/10 employers fear having to offer some decent terms, conditions and wages to their employees.

It's hardly a surprise that businesses like an unlimited supply of cheap labour. It's not too nice for the employee who can't afford food and shelter without government (tax payer) assistance though.

It's important to understand that no company will ever admit the truth about what they are all about.

They talk of "skills", they mean cheap labour that'll work overtime for nothing and take abuse...


Giving business what it wants is ruining the UKs economy, at least as it pertains to individuals. Maybe there are a few people who do well, but most people are gradually pulled down.

It's hard to believe the Conservatives have a 40% poll rating.

Yep


Yep


Yep, All brexit achieves is moving the focus to undermining skilled jobs


Nope. It's the lesser of two evils. Better the devil we know than the trot behind the curtain

To the people who say that the businesses concerned should train unemployed people in this country.

Does that not depend on the level of unemployment in the area that company is based.

If the company is based in an area with low unemployment (most of London and the South East for example). Then there will not be enough people available that can do that kind of work or will want to do that kind of work.

Then they could recruit from the north of England rather than Poland or if they need lots of workers even move production to the north of England.

“Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.”
– Yoda

So lets see.

1) The company that I work for has to go up north to find young workers who couldn't be bothered to come south to find work for themselves.

On the other hand young Eastern European workers decided for themselves to come to the UK with little or no money and look for work without any help from anyone.

Who do you think that would make the better employee.

2) Most of the older workforce in the north a family men and women who cannot afford to move their families south do to house prices in the south.

So it is impossible for them to do what you are saying.

3) There is a significant shortage of indigenous young workers (now and in the immediate future) in this country due to the low birth rate in the 90's and most of the 2000's.

This gap needs to be filled from somewhere.

There's a significant shortage of indigenous workers doing low skilled jobs because successive governments have made the incentives of benefits and sitting at home on their arses more attractive then going out to work. Benefits should be for people who genuinely cannot work. There are able bodied people in their mid 40's who know how to milk the system and have never had a job in their lives.

Bang on the money. And with a little turbulace as predicated we will be a better country and out the EU

Or 6 in 10 british businesses don't fear post brexit skills shortage. That's the majority in my book

We have thousands of young people wasting their time doing media studies and the like. The fields of Britain await them.