FOUR out of FIVE new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade, new report reveals

There are some exemptions in terms of cultural recruitment. But otherwise discrimination is against the law.

I should imagine a vast majority of those with families will be claiming top up benefits like housing benefit, universal credit, child benefit and also using services like the NHS, schools, etc while paying very little in.

We are also paying the same benefits to Brits who can't find a job.

You do the Math.

Well a lot of low paid social and health care employees will be claiming top up benefits, ditto those in other low paid roles if they bring families with them.

Cost of living in the UK is hardly cheap is it now.

The thing is that stuff only gets in the paper if it’s unusual or exceptional. Obviously this stuff happens, but if it happened all the time it would be in the magazine/lifestyle section at best.

Thankyou for clarifying. Although many will actually be British Citizens I suspect.

This site is well known to be left wing. People on here literally parrot Labour sound bytes with no critical thinking whatsoever. No one is spending time and effort posting on here in the hope of influencing someone to vote in a particular way. If they actually believe they are, I truly despair.

Well any mention of the 'right' has people literally frothing. Let's rephrase that to a forum largely full of Labour supporters.

My apologies, I didnt make clear that they were not recruited from abroad. All the applicants have the right to work and live in the UK but are immigrants.

To recruit in large numbers the employer would be a sponsor and proactively advertise what would be a modest job overseas.

I should imagine a vast majority of those with families will be claiming top up benefits like housing benefit, universal credit, child benefit and also using services like the NHS, schools, etc while paying very little in.

We are also paying the same benefits to Brits who can't find a job.

You do the Math.

Has me wondering too!

I’m guessing, ok?
Some employers from overseas might prefer to employ people with the same language/from the same culture
Unscrupulous employers might prefer people who are more vulnerable (ie would have to move if they can’t keep their job)
There has always been a shortage of carers as it’s hard, poorly paid, thankless work - there probably is a legitimate shortage of
locals to do it

My son in law worked in recruitment for several large warehouses (think Amazon, big online shops etc) until recently. He said that the vast vast majority of applicants were foreign nationals, and that many of the UK nationals that do apply leave pretty quickly as the work is boring, physically taxing and the hours are long. The money is very good as a result.

He thinks that many British young people see the job as beneath them and dont want to do the hard work that it takes to earn the wages.

MN? Left wing? Where?

I used to work for an employability charity. We used to source jobs for young people. Despite there being TONNES of jobs in hospitality none of them wanted to apply. They were also really snooty about which retail jobs they would apply for, and despite going through an employability programme so many still expected to walk into a £30K job with no qualifications, they did not get that your first job will not be your only job. The former HR director of Pret said that only 1 in 50 applicants for the jobs were British, and that British people do not see hospitality as a long term career option.

It is appalling that more British people are not in British jobs, I would be so interested in knowing what the applicant proportion of british born vs migrant applicants is.

….why though is an immigrant more attractive to employ than a UK citizen? There needs to be a reason to explain your theory?

This site is well known to be left wing. People on here literally parrot Labour sound bytes with no critical thinking whatsoever. No one is spending time and effort posting on here in the hope of influencing someone to vote in a particular way. If they actually believe they are, I truly despair.

My son in law worked in recruitment for several large warehouses (think Amazon, big online shops etc) until recently. He said that the vast vast majority of applicants were foreign nationals, and that many of the UK nationals that do apply leave pretty quickly as the work is boring, physically taxing and the hours are long. The money is very good as a result.

He thinks that many British young people see the job as beneath them and dont want to do the hard work that it takes to earn the wages.

My son in law worked in recruitment for several large warehouses (think Amazon, big online shops etc) until recently. He said that the vast vast majority of applicants were foreign nationals, and that many of the UK nationals that do apply leave pretty quickly as the work is boring, physically taxing and the hours are long. The money is very good as a result.

He thinks that many British young people see the job as beneath them and dont want to do the hard work that it takes to earn the wages.

I've no particular opinion on the subject, but those two things can both be true: for one working adult, there may be several dependants, including elderly parents as well as children.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/gazan-family-refugee-status-asylum-rejection-gwsq2c8b

This. It's all very well for degree educated Mumsnetters to virtue signal about how anti racist they are about immigrants but they aren't the ones who are faced with applying for hundreds of jobs at minimum wage that they can't get and are languishing on benefits. Employers want staff that they don't have to bother to train, so drain other countries of their trained staff. The health and care visa was designed to cover a shortfall of 30-50k people. 600, 000 visas were issued due to the botched post Brexit visa system set up by the Johnson government. The rest of these people aren't working in care. They are working in shops, some illegally, deliveroo drivers etc, so they are taking minimum wage jobs in areas like hospitality and retail that young people could be doing to at least get on the ladder of working, or be trained into.

Social media is a huge influencer of public opinion.

Where do you think the term influencer comes from?
Why do companies spend billions on social media advertising?