AIBU to think redundancy crisis is not getting enough media coverage?

This is a very good point

The piece on the radio was specifically about prison officers. A newish prison only half capacity due to staffing issues. No one wants to work in them, and for good reason.

I mentioned both the prison and probation services there are many many roles available both inside and outside the gate. Everything from psychotherapeutic intervention delivery, to unpaid work supervisor, court officer, housing officer , administration roles, corporate services, contract management, HR, procurement, project management etc if people are genuinely looking for work there are many opportunities available. Dismissing them all due to the difficulties of prison officers who are not even all employed by HMPPS by the way, is short sighted

I don’t have a pension so I will be working until my seventies I expect.

I understand, but I have seen people on here suggest working as a prisoner officer on here... simply due to the fact they are understaffed, and like is an easy job to get so anyone unemployed should be applying otherwise they are considered lazy etc.

I started working in local government in 2006 and my whole team were made redundant and the office closed in 2007.

Because that is de facto redundancy, and only one person would need to inform the government for them to be sanctioned for breaking the law. And not just employment law, failure to declare/ submit their TR1.

all the people who leave by this alleged “mutual agreement” get legal advices do you think not one of their lawyers pointed this out?

I just think you’re getting the language mixed up and where nowhere near close enough to the process to know what did or didn’t happen.

Yes. But that's what has just changed. The fact is people were getting visas just to be shop staff. Which is utterly staggering when young people have been struggling to get work for quite some time

Nurses have to pass an English test in order to work in the NHS. Newly qualified nurses are also facing a recruitment crisis. Loads from last year Still haven't found jobs.

I think either the standard of the test needs investigation or some people have found a way to fiddle the system.

I am secondary school teacher. They are closing the sixth form and makin 18 people redunant at my school.

That isnt the case for my former colleagues. They are in their 30s-40s. Certainly not drawing any pension and actively applying for roles. We are in a CS profession and they have been totally shocked at their experience. Im glad it was not the case for you though.

It's under 5%, compared to a historical average of 6% during my lifetime (with peaks much higher and lower of course) so it's not really in newsworthy territory. That said I think AI is going to create a significant rotation in what people do for a living so I'd expect more people pushed out of existing roles and into something else over the next decade or two. It's going to create some stress, but it's not like the 10%+ unemployment of the mid-80s so I don't expect it to become a major cultural talking point.

It's very odd that people are experiencing such difficulty in finding jobs and those receiving applications are reporting vastly more than at times in the not too distant past. All while the unemployment stats remain largely unchanged. I do wonder whether rises in applications for disability benefits is part of it - some people are opting out all together because it's just too hard and they've lost hope they can make it work with the health issues they have, even if they might have done 20 or 30 years ago. But then what explains all these reports of so many applications per vacancy? I also wonder if there is a rise in freelancing so that some people report that they are in employment - better than having a gap on their CV. But they are earning very little and continuing to apply for jobs while technically being self-employed.

Or that more and more people are unhappy or feel insecure in their roles and are applying for other jobs despite not actually being out of work (or at least not yet).

@TheCurious0range The problem with the difficult to fill roles that seem to always be available for anyone that's willing to do them qualified or not, is they may well attract some of the most desperate unsuitable people that just need a job, any job - and you don't really want that in a care home or a prison or anywhere with vulnerable people.

Just got back from a a trip home to UK (London, S Yorks, Cornwall), first time in 3 years. I was pretty shocked at the lack of staff in many places, particularly in retail and hospitality. It is quite obvious that companies are making do with the absolute minimum number of employees possibly fewer.
And the companies and sectors concerned would have been the "fall back employers" for many - teens first job, semi-retired and those with few qualifications.

How can a prison/probation officer be hybrid?
I did see that probation is undergoing a big recruitment drive lately. I have thought about that sector and the police but unfortunately I have a shoulder injury so can’t do many physical jobs. I certainly wouldn’t be able to chase and hold someone.

A couple of my friends and I applied for Immigration apprenticeships a couple of years ago. None of us got anywhere despite all having experience of life (all in our 40s), customer service and enforcement. I honestly don’t know what they want.

Not on London they aren't, they are full of young people who have immigrated here and then had a nasty shock as to what jobs are actually available.

Which engineering courses should we point our young people towards?
Sadly my son changed his A levels and decided against engineering in the end, I hope he gets a job.

Genuinely, I don't understand why you say this. In the last 26 years, we have had a Conservative government since 2010. Why do you blame Labour, they have barely had a chance to do anything in 2 years. 24 years of extreme mismanagement has got us here. Labour may well be re-arranging the deck chairs. But look at the poor leadership we have had.

David Cameron (Conservative majority, 2015–2016)
Theresa May (2016–2019)
Boris Johnson (2019–2022)
Liz Truss (2022)
Rishi Sunak (2022–2024)

It isn’t as simple as that. My NHS Trust has frozen recruitment for the foreseeable. So that’s 4 major city hospitals and the surrounding healthcare centres etc. are not allowed to recruit.

This means that all of the newly qualified nurses (from two universities) who are due to qualify this summer have no jobs to go to. It’s a massive issue. There’s no use in increasing training if there a no jobs at the end of it for the students.

I'm still getting offered loads of work on the heavy plant/trucking side. When I finished my HS2 contract with Tarmac a few months back I had four of the hauliers offer me work on the mixers for £200 a day plus o/t although I'd already found a job eight mins from home.

They were struggling enough on the evening shift that they were paying a £150 bonus plus full shift at 1.5x hourly rate. Almost £400 for what was often just shy of four hours work. So I think it's defo sector specific.

Ime it’s easy to make mass linked in applications.

Yes in the last year I’ve had hundreds of applications per job but most of them are trash. They’re unsuitable people throwing in linked in applications at a click.

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