Low-paid workers such as cleaners, catering assistants and machine operators are most likely to be on the dole for more than six months if they lose their job, according to new research.The TUC report has a little more depth to it but still fails to address the issue of WHY are these people more likely to be unemployed so can I suggest two possible reasons?
The TUC analysis showed that as unemployment rises and the number of job vacancies fall, a growing proportion of unemployed people are staying on the dole for over six months, hitting low-paid workers more than others.
1. National Minimum Wage, alongside other employment regulations, has made it uneconomic for companies to employ these people. Employers are afraid of the long term financial consequences of employing too many staff.
2. Catering, cleaning, and factory work are seen by many as low skilled employment sought by people of low aspiration and intelligence. In many cases this is true. You don't need a degree to clean offices or flip burgers (although having a degree doesn't, in practise, enable you to perform either of this tasks with any level of skill or competency). People with low or inappropriate skill sets are not being employed.
Solutions? Mine are quite simplistic. Remove minimum wage, reduce employment regulation to rebalance the relationship between employee and employer, alter the benefit system so it returns to being a safety net for the most needy and no longer a lifestyle choice.
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You are indeed absolutely correct but getting your wish list has as much chance as a snowball in hell. Once you give something you have no hope of getting it back regardless of how sensible it may be to do so.
Perfectly intelligent and workable conclusion.
That's why we will never see it in practice. The only people that can do as you suggest are too stupid to understand.
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