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Originally Posted by Livia
Heaven forfend we should get a third of those people working then. There's always a lot of talk about immigrants claiming benefits but quite honestly, I've hardly met any that don't already have a job, lots of them menial, unsocial hours etc... but they're working.
There are lots and lots of people unemployed and desperately trying to get their lives back on track and they should get all the help they need. But there are a lot who don't intend to work because they're quite comfortable. It's madness...
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I'm not denying that there are people who simply have no intention of being in work, I'm just saying that of all of the unemployed, the vast majority desperately want any job. It's obviously not quite as simple as you're making out. For one, I rarely hear of an employer struggling to fill vacancies when they have them... there are plenty of applicants for every position and - certainly around here at least - min wage vacancies are filled within a week of being advertised and have dozens if not hundreds of applicants.
Nowhere is getting "no applicants". If someone is struggling to fill a job position, it's because no one who has tried for the job has been qualified / experienced enough to fill the role. I don't see how the government stepping in to shoehorn a random jobseeker into that job would help anyone either. You'd have someone struggling to do the job, and a business forced to take an employee who is potentially incompetent in the role? I mean, thinking of entry level where I am, which pays only marginally above minimum wage... I can only imagine what would happen if the govt. tried to send in any old jobseeker.
The problem being that "low paid", these days, doesn't mean "anyone can do it". Even at entry level at mine you need to have two things to work where I work; 1) A reasonable level of intelligence (some maths ability, especially) and 2) Skin a foot thick and a decent death stare.
Even being selective we've had really bad hiring decisions. Kids who either struggle with the training and can't be signed off as competent, or ones who are fine with the technical role but crumble as soon as they have to deal with an... *ahem*... "customer query" (AKA deathmatch).
TL;DR - Businesses aren't struggling to fill their vacancies on their own and they don't need the government to step in, blundering around forcing decisions that could damage turnover.