I see HMG has introduced a temporay limit (5% reduction) on non-EU wokrers coming to this country. No a bad start, but they could and should have gone further.
A senior PWC consultants says:
"It's very important that we allow businesses a free choice to bring in overseas nationals
Julia Onslow-Cole
Price Waterhouse Coopers"
What a pile of tosh. By turning off the foreign worker tap, emplyers will be forced to hire British workers thereby lessening the burden on the state.
One questions whether Onslow-Cole has any idea about standards of university education overseas in third world countries. If she did, she wouldn't be so gullible. However, she expresses the typical HR type viewpoint which encourages employers to go for young, inexperienced but highly certificated (not to western standards) non-EU immigrant workers.
Other country's operate strict 'nationalist' guidlelines about this sort of thing, but we are typically weak. I was hoping for a tougher stance on this from the new boys and will be making my thoughts known to Mr E. when the opportunity arises.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Well done, Sid! I won't go further, as I have too many yellow cards, so keep it up!
There is another aspect - many nursing homes I have seen employ people with little English. If you have had a stroke or are vulnerable, you need to be able to communicate with people in YOUR OWN native tongue and not have people jabbering to each other in their own language over you while washing you, slapping you onto a commode or doing anything at all with you that requires respect and dignity. That isn't racist, it's fact.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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I don't believe it racist or jingoistic to protect our borders - every country in the civilised world does exactly the same. Tried getting work in Canada, Australia or the States? It'd be easier getting a drink out of Brian Dixon...........
True friends stab you in the front.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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surely canada, australia and the usa cannot be as bad as that.
They are worse that that Howard! Holiday visas are easy, but try getting a work visa, it's next to impossible, and rightly so. Australia is particularly tough. In fact, it's only Britain that is easy to get into.
Anyway, good to see Boy David delivering indirectly on Gordies promise of British jobs for British workers.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just the new government spin, they may issue less work permits, but opening the floodgates here in dover means that anyone can waltz through and undercut the work force.
different government same attitude.
Brian Dixon
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i wonderd where that tenner went to the other day.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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pavarotti doesn't come into it brian.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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howard,not that sort of tenner,but the tenner of the out dated veriaty.
OMG
Bern,
You make the point about foriegn workers jaberring in there own tongue.
Have you ever tried touring in north Wales??? We do not need any rude foriegners we have our own home grown ones born here.
There is nothing more offensive than entering a shop in wales and the locals look at you and start prattling in there own language amongst themselves, You know they are talking about you by the looks and sly grins that pass between them. Only wish Offa's dyke was still in operation!!
So Offa was of the sapphic persuasion?
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Bob
Like it
I must admit I thought most of them used to work in the I.S
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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If you all had voted for you UKIP we would have seen a totel ban for five years now with none coming in.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Vic - that is as daft as Labour's open door policy.
As Sid said it is a start and yes not enough. This is an interim measure with a cap properly applying from next year. DC said in the election that the scale of reduction will be to reduce the numbers from six figures to middle 5 figures per annum.
They have had to use a small interim figure to enable business to plan - some of these immigrants are on 'job swaps' (about 30,000 a year) within companies and these are contractual.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It will not work and you know that it can only work if we stop all and I mean all.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It works elsewhere like Australia Vic, it can work here.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We could not do what they do over there we are to small for that and the law gives in far to easy.
Bob Frost,
"What price a good education" It is a pity that some people must show there arrogance and privilage, while the rest of us just manage to get along without bragging about how well educated we are.
Given a choice between the two, I am quiet happy to state there is nothing of the snob about me!!
