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Actually for me where I live it is the opposite. It's literally and I'm not exaggerating 50% of my friends / family who're desperate to work and will work anywhere any hours any pay, but find themselves unable to.
Well we do agree that there aren't enough opportunities for young people regardless of the reasons for that, we agree change is needed and that's important.
Originally posted by lizziejayne
Definitely. We need more apprenticeships, vocational and skills-based opportunities. One of the biggest mistakes our government ever made IMO was pulling most of the in-role opportunities for up-skilling and pushing everything towards an university-based education.
Ask anyone who works in a warehouse who the majority are there, they are always filled with eastern Europeans, they've taken nearly the whole warehousing sector.
Ask farmers, factory workers, manufacturers etc which nationality of work people are prominent in those sectors.