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Well done the Tories and just goes to show there is plenty of work for those who want it.
No doubt we will get the envious work shy lefties along trying to put a negative spin on this great achievement soon. But hey they will never change will they ?
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The definition of employment the ONS uses is 'one hour or more of paid work per week (as an employee or self-employed), those who had a job that they were temporarily away from, those on government-supported training and employment programmes, and those doing unpaid family work.' While the numbers may seem deceptively exciting, the number of 0 hour contracts and 'gig economy' workers on unsustainably low pay in this country means the statistics don't show the quality of the employment, which can be just as, if not more important.
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Record Employment in the UK great news on 11:01 - Jan 22 with 4858 views
What about all those people who don't firm a part of these stats ? The thousands retired early ? The housewives and husband's who don't sign on ? And others ...
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A good percentage of the jobs are low value ones. Those in poverty today are those who are in work.It blows apart the neo lib claim that poverty is because of idleness
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Record Employment in the UK great news on 13:18 - Jan 22 with 4795 views
Record Employment in the UK great news on 11:04 - Jan 22 by controversial_jack
A good percentage of the jobs are low value ones. Those in poverty today are those who are in work.It blows apart the neo lib claim that poverty is because of idleness
Speaking to someone in work last week who came in to work recently at 6am only to be told that there was no work for him. He is an agency worker. He had been told by the agency to attend. Being a non driver it cost him two taxi fares for nothing. Not the first time this has happened to agency workers and apparently we are one of the better firms to work for if you listen to these people. If he complains to the agency he will then be at the bottom of the list for any future work. He is classed as being in employment according to those figures. Only going to get worse after Brexit as workers rights are eroded even more.
Record Employment in the UK great news on 15:53 - Jan 22 by WxmJax
Speaking to someone in work last week who came in to work recently at 6am only to be told that there was no work for him. He is an agency worker. He had been told by the agency to attend. Being a non driver it cost him two taxi fares for nothing. Not the first time this has happened to agency workers and apparently we are one of the better firms to work for if you listen to these people. If he complains to the agency he will then be at the bottom of the list for any future work. He is classed as being in employment according to those figures. Only going to get worse after Brexit as workers rights are eroded even more.
Are workers rights going to be eroded after Brexit?
Record Employment in the UK great news on 16:06 - Jan 22 by westwalesed
Are workers rights going to be eroded after Brexit?
First of all let me state I am a supporter of SENSIBLE pro-European common market approach, the EU does indeed come with many pluses but sadly especially over the last few years in particular has come with minuses also.
If the U.K keeps up with the utterly unsustainable levels of immigration from Eastern Europe that for example has worsened wages/working conditions for indigenous U.K construction workers? Then in a decade or two (has been mentioned impartially on U.K ITV news) the countries infrastructure will no longer be able to cope. We're now living in an era of jump-through-hoop 'triage systems' to get a G.P appointments, people being unable to access an N.H.S dentist and ambulances failing to turn up for emergencies etc, etc.
Speaking (many have experienced this also) myself whom has worked for zero overtime pay, zero (even for bank holidays) holiday pay and on zero hour contracts? I wished that I had (millions of others also) experienced a bit of that (by personal experience) mythical EU worker right protection. I never saw any!
Argus!
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Record Employment in the UK great news on 16:54 - Jan 22 with 4672 views
Record Employment in the UK great news on 16:31 - Jan 22 by Wingstandwood
First of all let me state I am a supporter of SENSIBLE pro-European common market approach, the EU does indeed come with many pluses but sadly especially over the last few years in particular has come with minuses also.
If the U.K keeps up with the utterly unsustainable levels of immigration from Eastern Europe that for example has worsened wages/working conditions for indigenous U.K construction workers? Then in a decade or two (has been mentioned impartially on U.K ITV news) the countries infrastructure will no longer be able to cope. We're now living in an era of jump-through-hoop 'triage systems' to get a G.P appointments, people being unable to access an N.H.S dentist and ambulances failing to turn up for emergencies etc, etc.
Speaking (many have experienced this also) myself whom has worked for zero overtime pay, zero (even for bank holidays) holiday pay and on zero hour contracts? I wished that I had (millions of others also) experienced a bit of that (by personal experience) mythical EU worker right protection. I never saw any!
Nice post Wingstandwood.
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The number of zero hours contracts decreased by 100,000 in 2018 and the average hours worked by people on zero hours was 25. Hardly fit's narrative that people on zero hour contracts only work 1 hour a week.
Record Employment in the UK great news on 17:56 - Jan 22 by felixstowe_jack
The number of zero hours contracts decreased by 100,000 in 2018 and the average hours worked by people on zero hours was 25. Hardly fit's narrative that people on zero hour contracts only work 1 hour a week.
And earning the 200 quid a week that those hours will bring someone is hardly a sustainable, full time job is it.
The weird thing is that someone who is economically right wing such as yourself, should hate the fact that companies like Uber, or Starbucks, or Deliveroo or local authorities for that matter, get away with only paying people to work when they’re busy, so the taxpayer subsidises their expenses for the rest of the time. You shouldn’t want state (and by extension tax payer) subsidy of these companies (which it in effect is).
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Record Employment in the UK great news on 18:30 - Jan 22 with 4560 views
It takes a ‘special’ kind of one-eyed arse to keep banging the Conservative drum when a referendum was called solely to retain Conservative control (no matter how much it wrecked the country), was so badly contested that they lost to the most ridiculous group of bumwhiffs, has been so badly negotiated (again by a Conservative government) that the last remnants of this country is being ripped apart and, when the riots happen in your neighbourhood Paul, the police won’t be able to help due to Conservative underfunding!!
Still, at least you still think ‘Remoaners’ is funny!
Is someone looking after you?
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Record Employment in the UK great news on 19:04 - Jan 22 with 4530 views
It’s great headline to hear that there is Record Employment and while it’s good that there are less people out of work, it’s clear that the picture isn’t as rosy as the statistics paint. Politicians manipulate situations and statistics to suit their own ends and how many times have we seen politicians repeatedly fail to answer questions posed by interviewers.
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Record Employment in the UK great news on 19:21 - Jan 22 with 4508 views
Record Employment in the UK great news on 15:53 - Jan 22 by WxmJax
Speaking to someone in work last week who came in to work recently at 6am only to be told that there was no work for him. He is an agency worker. He had been told by the agency to attend. Being a non driver it cost him two taxi fares for nothing. Not the first time this has happened to agency workers and apparently we are one of the better firms to work for if you listen to these people. If he complains to the agency he will then be at the bottom of the list for any future work. He is classed as being in employment according to those figures. Only going to get worse after Brexit as workers rights are eroded even more.
This is a disgraceful state of affairs, it’s not far off the kind of thing you see in some parts of the world (usually the developing world) where you see people turning out in the morning, standing in a line of similar people trying to secure work for that day.
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