UK unemployment rises as most new jobs go to citizens of other EU state

remorseless

UK unemployment rises as most new jobs go to citizens of other EU states

Well at least can't say the EU folks are here to be on benefits!

Unemployment is still pretty low (5.6%), possibly just a storm in a teacup!

Generali

remorseless wrote: »

Well at least can't say the EU folks are here to be on benefits!

Unemployment is still pretty low (5.6%), possibly just a storm in a teacup!

As unemployment is so low, it's fair to say that indigenous employment levels have tracked changes in the indigenous population and extra positions have been filled by immigrants.

michaels

Interesting that vacancies remain high and rising - perhaps improving European economies and the cost of living n London are starting to impact?

remorseless

Indeed, today they were showing that students being admitted to Uni is up 3% from last year...

I wonder if more graduate will push the need for cheaper labour from abroad...

Lungboy

I'd bet that a huge part of the reason that student numbers is up is that the government abolished the caps they placed on universities, so they can now recruit as many students as they want.

remorseless

yes that part was not clear to me yet.. why was there a cap?

Masomnia

remorseless wrote: »

yes that part was not clear to me yet.. why was there a cap?

To keep costs down I assume. Now that tuition fees are up and students are taking on the cost rather than the exchequer there isn't as much need for a cap.

westv

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/12/uk-employment-figures-ons-eu-migrants-net-jobs-growth

And from the same newspaper website

"Figures do not prove EU migrants are taking new UK jobs or driving down pay"

Lungboy

It wasn't just a cap, it had financial implications too. Go too far under it and you got fined, and the cap would be lowered the following year meaning you could recruit fewer students. Go over and be fined also. It was a very fine balancing act for departments to offer just enough places to slowly grow their department without too many students getting the grades and taking the department over its cap. With the cap gone it's a free-for-all.

stator

We all know a small but significant percentage of the unemployement claimants are completely unemployable. You wouldn't trust them to hold a turd.

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I bet the 1.85 million unemployed think the figure is low,what about adding the under employed to the figure and those who chose to be unemployed,the torus crow about the record numbers in work hardly a surprise as the population grows is it
like all figures from all govts its smoke and mirrors and yet more smoke