British workers

[El Pibe]

The point being that said Spaniards are both employable and showing willing.

Wasabi is a british company, I've almost never seen a Brit working in there...how comes? Doesn't take so very much on your cv to do the job so why the high youth unemployment, the Spaniards (and indians, japanese, koreans, italians, poles etc etc) aren't taking those jobs, they are filling the deserately needed vacancies.

Like I say, cultural!!

[LondonMix]

Agree with that. British people think certain jobs (particularly low and unskilled) are beneath them. There is absolutely nothing preventing a British worker getting an unskilled job vis-a-vis a foreigner.

Skilled jobs is a different matter but the truth is that requires an overhall of the system rather than coercing employers to hire sub-par candidates based on public pressure.

[uncleglen]

Who on Earth was doing all the low-skilled work (fruit picking, shop work, cleaning etc) before the influx of foreigners- we were. In Brighton for example, a friend's daughter had worked in a hotel in her school vacations and at weekends for 2 years. She liked the work and decided to go into hospitality after leaving school. She went to the hotel at one point to be informed that she no longer had any work there and found that almost the whole place was staffed with foreigners. I wonder if they were being paid the going rate?

As far as skills are concerned, it was a lot 'easier' for the previous government to allow an influx of already trained building workers to come in than to train our youngsters and create enough apprenticeships- and they also had an eye on the potential votes of the future I'll wager.

[LondonMix]

So you think the hotel should have kept the position open for her in anticipation of her wanting it? For unskilled work, a British applicant should be at an advantage because of the language / communication skills they have in English. I?m not sure that employers are specifically discriminating against low / unskilled British workers.

[uncleglen]

She didn't actually leave the job which was part-time, but what happened was a Spanish man got a job there and the manager gave the girl's part-time job to his wife. When I was a student I had a job in a restaurant bar and the kitchen staff were mostly Italian- the manager employed them because the chef was Italian and could not speak English so it was easier to employ Italians to work with him.