Saturday 27 July 2013

UK jobs being advertised across the EU at taxpayers' expense, it emerges

'Under an EU scheme partly funded by British taxpayers, all positions advertised in UK jobcentres also have to be offered to workers in European member states. UK firms are given as much as £1,000 as a bonus for taking on the foreign workers.
The disclosure undermined comments made by Matthew Hancock, the business and skills minister, who called on UK bosses to stop taking the “easy option” of filling jobs with foreigners when they could train local workers instead.'
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Brussels offers UK firms £1,000 cash 'bribes' to hire foreign workers

'Brussels is offering British firms cash ‘bribes’ of almost £1,000 a time to take on foreign workers.Thousands of youngsters are also being offered payments totalling more than £1,100 to take a job in Britain under the European Commission scheme.'
The extraordinary initiative appears to directly undermine Government efforts to persuade firms to take on British workers as the recovery takes hold.'