The REAL cost of unemployment is £61 billion per year

mkpdavies · 03-01-2007, 09:53 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

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Unemployment costs the taxpayer a massive £61billion a year, with more than five million who could work claiming benefits, figures show.

This is nearly six times the £11 billion official cost of unemployment benefits and a blow to Labour boasts that it has brought joblessness to its lowest level since the mid-1970s.

Chocolate rations doubled this week too.

This blow huge holes in so many of all three of the Troikas arguments, on so many issues.

No needs for mass immigration, indeed it is damaging Britain.
Huge amount of parasites sucking the tax payer dry.
The tax/benefit system is near collapse.

Everything we already suspected.

g hall · 05-01-2007, 03:39 PM

The benefits system needs a complete overhaul AND I speak from experience

A substantial amount of British management is inept and very good at passing the buck.

Ageism is rife and so is cost cutting while feather bedding of cronies is alive and well.

We need responsible management and trades unions

We need to halt immigration and weed out undesirables and then restart with a points sytem

We need to educate at all ages and levels and make people feel valued

We can do this with the money saved by leaving the EU

mkpdavies · 05-01-2007, 03:44 PM

Mass uncontrolled immigration has made the old persons life much more difficult in the workplace. Why hire one oldie, who you would perceive as having less energy and more sickness, with less willingness to take orders than 2 young Poles for the same price?

Older people bring different qualities to the table of course, the biggest being experience of life and knowledge in general.

Do employers care about those things anymore? Not in the minimum wage jobs that's for sure.

Dissident Congress · 05-01-2007, 04:13 PM

Employers are also to blame.

1. The skills shortage. What it actually means is a shortage of people with work experience in the right area. Not work experience in general, but work experience in very specific areas. Employers often post job adverts wanting people with 5 years experience in a technology that has only existed for 3 years.

2. Taking forever to hire people. Somebody I know was interviewed 6 months after the job was advertised and it took another 6 months before they were told they had been selected. In the meantime they found another job.

3. Wanting employees to be everything to everybody. Many highly skilled and qualified people are rejected because they are simply not good all rounders or are weak in areas that are not really of importance.

4. Stupid tests used in job interviews. Many excellent people are rejected because they perform poorly in aptitude tests used in interviews. These tests are totally irrelevant to the job in question and most are of the "pop psychology" variety.

5. Recruitment agencies. They often refuse to forward CVs to companies unless they are a 100% match with the job spec. Therefore companies are often unaware of the existance of potential employees.

g hall · 06-01-2007, 10:14 AM

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4. Stupid tests used in job interviews. Many excellent people are rejected because they perform poorly in aptitude tests used in interviews. These tests are totally irrelevant to the job in question and most are of the "pop psychology" variety.

You applied for B and Q as well then - answer dont buy from them and write to the ceo and the press explaining why

05-01-2007, 03:44 PM	#3 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,604	Mass uncontrolled immigration has made the old persons life much more difficult in the workplace. Why hire one oldie, who you would perceive as having less energy and more sickness, with less willingness to take orders than 2 young Poles for the same price? Older people bring different qualities to the table of course, the biggest being experience of life and knowledge in general. Do employers care about those things anymore? Not in the minimum wage jobs that's for sure. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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05-01-2007, 03:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4,940	The benefits system needs a complete overhaul AND I speak from experience A substantial amount of British management is inept and very good at passing the buck. Ageism is rife and so is cost cutting while feather bedding of cronies is alive and well. We need responsible management and trades unions We need to halt immigration and weed out undesirables and then restart with a points sytem We need to educate at all ages and levels and make people feel valued We can do this with the money saved by leaving the EU

05-01-2007, 04:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
Dissident Congress Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 666	Employers are also to blame. 1. The skills shortage. What it actually means is a shortage of people with work experience in the right area. Not work experience in general, but work experience in very specific areas. Employers often post job adverts wanting people with 5 years experience in a technology that has only existed for 3 years. 2. Taking forever to hire people. Somebody I know was interviewed 6 months after the job was advertised and it took another 6 months before they were told they had been selected. In the meantime they found another job. 3. Wanting employees to be everything to everybody. Many highly skilled and qualified people are rejected because they are simply not good all rounders or are weak in areas that are not really of importance. 4. Stupid tests used in job interviews. Many excellent people are rejected because they perform poorly in aptitude tests used in interviews. These tests are totally irrelevant to the job in question and most are of the "pop psychology" variety. 5. Recruitment agencies. They often refuse to forward CVs to companies unless they are a 100% match with the job spec. Therefore companies are often unaware of the existance of potential employees.