howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 February 2009
23:2415667today's news makes much of the fact that 1 in 7 job in the UK is held by someone not born here.
add to that the fact that for every 4 jobs an EU citzen holds here, one job in the EU is held by a UK chap/chapess.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 February 2009
08:3215677There was also a good proportion of jobs taken by people outside of the EU.
I can understand to a great extent "British" workers who do want to work but can't - for various reasons, being resentful of jobs being given to overseas workers, many of whom are recruited over-seas too.
The nature of the EU beast is free movement of workers, but there must be limits or we'll have all British workers on benefits and just overseas workers working here.
There have been reports of non-eu people working for as little as £2.00 an hour, this may be great and cost effective for the businesses employing them, but not good for the bigger picture.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 February 2009
20:2515705roger
i understand that the EU rules mean that our employers only have to pay the minimum wage of the country that the imported worker originates from.
the £.2.00 an hour is paid to EU workers too, mostly from the new improved europe.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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19 February 2009
20:3915709This is the catastrophic problem of people not paying the minimum wage...or getting away with not paying the minimum wage. It must be enforced. As we found with that oil depot strike recently...in order for everything to work smoothly there must be a level playing field for all workers in the European Union. Nobody from Italy or Poland or indeed anywhere should be fobbed off with a lower wage than their British counterparts. The level playing field protects home jobs, and then if there are any jobs us locals dont want to do, and there used to be many, then use foreign workers.
Brian Dixon
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19 February 2009
20:4715710the level playing field works both ways or should do.take for instace the taxation side of things thats like a mine field never the same scale in two neiboring countrys,and we are the one of the highest tax paying countrys in europe.