Labour have ruined the job market

[Needajobforspouse]

My spouse was made redundant in November, has done some bid work since then (e.g zero contract parcel delivery) but not enough to make up his old salary. He has job alerts and this week there was ZERO jobs advertised that meet his qualifications.

Nobody is hiring.

I work for an SME, and I am also at risk and in bad health. Not enough for PIP etc but enough to make me unreliable (recently diagnosed as immunocompromised).

Not even the local supermarket is hiring, and they won’t touch my DH anyway as he is massively over qualified (I know a supermarket manager and they don’t take on over qualified people as they are “hard to manage” and don’t stay long term.).

yesterday our car broke and we used the last of our savings for a new one, my roof is leaking. My bay window is leaking and I just feel like giving up.

just dreading this year of shitty government policies that pick on the middle income earners and penalise us, is this life? Because if so I hate it.

also where are all the jobs?! Literally zero here in northern England.

No doubt the business tax changes are hurting the economy. Sentiment is very poor among the SME community especially.

The tech world is also on its knees as a lot of jobs are disappearing with new ways of working: PM, infrastructure, transformation. The new skills are very different and there aren’t as many of them.

You do realise that Labour haven't been in power for very long? They picked up the mess from the Conservatives including Brexit!

Op, I have sympathy. My employer is profitable but has cancelled all recruitment because of the NI raise. Unfortunately Marketing is always the first thing companies cut back on because it is a cost centre rather than a profit centre. My brother is a company accountant and they will have to pay an extra £200,000 a year in NI in a price sensitive market. They can't raise prices so they are cutting jobs too.

On the other hand you could manage your funds better by not buying a new car, but repairing the old one or buying a cheap little secondhand car.

Can your dh look at fixing the roof and the leaking window. Has he been up and checked the slates? Has he checked for perished sealant on the windows?

If your DH has skills & experience, he will find another job but it may take time. I also work in marketing, was made redundant during covid, aged 57 and it took 7 months of searching every job board daily, dozens of interviews but I got there in the end.

The coming six months will be difficult so steel yourself and encourage him the best you can. Ask him to help support your health, doing more housework and cooking you healthy fresh food every day with masses of fruit &veg, improving your diet and allowing you to rest more.

Work as a team. You will be ok.

You Both sound well skilled so look at freelance and consulting work.

lots of marketing jobs are remote and you can be based anywhere so get DH to market himself and bring in work. People have earned millions from online work boards and it gives him control of his work

Go out and look for or create the work - plenty of it still out there and not all been taken over by AI yet!!

Job market was slowing long behind Labour took over thanks to Brexit. I know because my husband was made redundant. Said husband is 60 and has just got a new job in a competitive field.

You are not really up to date with what is currently happening are you.

I voted YABU because Brexit has had a huge impact on the economy and will continue to stifle growth so long as we have it. It’s been so damaging. Doesn’t matter which government we have so long as we’re cut off.

Sorry to hear about your husbands job, something will turn up.

I didn't think employers paid NI for under 21s or apprentices under 25 but I may be wrong

Labour have made me put on 8 pounds and hidden my house keys.

If you work in the independent schools sector it is 100% because of Labour. VAT (that can't be passed onto parents because they simply can't afford it), NI, NMW, business rates. All the independent schools in the area are going through redundancies and in my town the school is the largest employer.

Could he re-train? the problem is that jobs like marketing and sales are not skilled, and therefore you are potentially going to find it difficult to get new job.

It’s very frustrating to read through many of these comments on here. MN is predominantly a labour biased group, who, for many years have been desperate for a chance in government. They now have this beloved Labour administration and can’t bare to admit what a poor job Rachel from accounts is doing.

As you can guess, I’m a traditional Conservative voter, but I didn’t vote for them last time round, they had made such a mess of things, mainly due to their loss of direction and infighting. Having said that though, it takes someone pretty special to come into power and make such a mess of things as we are seeing playing out in front of us. Statistically the worst incoming government in recent history. Even Labour led councils are citing the 4.99% council tax rises on the ‘unexpected’ rise in employer NI. You couldn’t make it up……
Now, I await the MN backlash telling me just how wrong this far right extremist is 😂.

Were you asleep the last 14 years? Tory underfunding across all services- NHS, education, police, councils….. cut everything to the bone. Then chuck in Brexit on top which was also entirely their own making. Thinking putting all that right is going to be a picnic is laughable. It’s going to be tough, get used to it.

I thought the council tax rise was to make up for the cuts in funding experienced this last decade or so?

Exactly this! We will be very lucky if we ever see a council tax rise of less 4.99% ever again. I can't see how any council could balance their budget without it

My son’s firm take on a few hundred graduates each year and a similar number on one year uni placements, he was one of them two years ago. This Summer’s intake will be just a couple of dozen of each. His immediate dept is getting one - when he started 2 years ago, he was one of about 25 who started together. The nic hike is killing the job market!

Labour aren’t putting it right, they’re making it worse!

In the last month
local animal charity redundancy of manager and no replacement of staff leaving
my friends son working in sales all of the recent intake not taken on
my friend 2.5 household staff £16k extra a year in tax and NI
25 preps closing resulting in large redundancies
I applied for 50 local jobs two interviews whereas before I would of been hired first interview
national event organiser 50 years established closed
these are all direct results of Labour mismanaging the economy
Im sure I’ll think of more

And how much are the current Labour government pumping into local councils exactly?

I think they have done plenty about it...£25 billion on employers NI including lowering the threshold is an enormous jobs killer. They just haven't a clue and now looking like more tax increases

Making what worse- the NHS, Brexit, local services, education, immigration , Truss’s impact…they’ve been in power a matter of months…..You need to be a little patient. Labour voters had to sit through 14 years of Tory decimation.

I work in the recruitment industry and within the north England and the job market as been bad for at least 12 months, this is well before labour. Things have actually started to pick up a bit over the last couple of months but it is still hard so I understand your frustrations.

What industry does he work in?
Is he registering with agencies to try for temp work?

A lot of companies aren't advertising for permanent roles but there is a lot of temporary jobs with agencies that can move into permanent.

Sadly, I agree. My DH was made redundant, and some of my friends have also been made redundant ( they are all marketing too- its the first to go, along with training and development) I agree years of Tory underfunding was the start of this, and Brexit, but you don't come in and immediately pile more costs onto businesses who are in a decline anyway.They did need to raise funding from somewhere, but its counterproductive to pile a sudden extra cost onto businesses so they make so many people redundant and don't recruit if you want growth. I hope they have a better relationship with Europe and get a grip on the work visa situation, which may lead to long term benefits. The Tories 'points based immigration' system was allowing businesses to recruit cheaply from abroad for lots of jobs that should have been done by people here. Apprenticeships in areas with a huge increase in work visas had dropped significantly, so rather than train young people, many industries were just recruiting from abroad. Including the NHS.

Not sure household staff and prep school staff reductions are going to be much the majority worry about given only the top tiny percentage use either. Re events and sales, it’s to be expected. There is a cost of living crisis caused by the Tories- don’t you remember “we’re all in it together”-except we weren’t it was just the less well paid. Now the wealthy are being squeezed it’s apparently abhorrent. Welcome to the real world where protecting the wealthy isn’t the priority .

They’re making the economy worse - you know the thing that pays for public services!