General Chat

I do not think supermarket chains are making their resources available to train retail staff for the future - my take on it is that in the war between the major supermarkets, faced with competition from the likes of Aldi, they will do anything to maintain their market share and boost their profits.

The scenario as I see it, is that the lass who relied on working 24 hours a week to make ends meet now only gets to work 16 hours a week, as someone on a work scheme has been given her other 8 hours, she now needs to try, if she can, to claim benefits to survive :-S

My friends son is unemployed but takes whatever work he can get from an agency.

Thats fine until that dries up. He has to re-sign for jobseekers and our local office is totally in-efficent. He has to borrow money to get there as it is not local. I have no objection to people working for their dole money, but agree free labour will disadvantage other people.

. am annoyed that no assistance is given to help him get a job ( he only signs on and nothing else offered, too old for an apprenticeship ) There are no training schemes or anything else available to help him get back into work.

How are people going to live on jobseekers allowance if they have to pay exorbitant fares to travel. I know the money is for jobseeking but people have to eat.

There are not enough jobs in my area and applications for advertised ones are so over subscribed its laughable
It is all one big mess and i don't know the answer.

I feel sorry for people who really want to work but are fighting a losing battle.

The gov put up tax & company's go to the wall or go overseas, this results in fewer jobs & more unemployment.
The young pay £9000.00 go to University or college, if at the end of that they have no job, now they may have to work for benefit so won’t have time to look for work. The older person who has paid tax into this system & has found him/herself out of work has to work for benefit. The work these people will be doing will probably be jobs once held by other people, only the boss may have got rid of them thinking they need not pay them as the unemployed person can do the job for free. Who loses? & who wins?

According uSwitch Quality of Life Index the UK and Ireland are the worst places to live in Europe, while France and Spain are the best.
The UK came 9th out of the 10 countries in the list – thanks to the fact that we pay the highest prices for food and diesel, work longer hours, retire later, get less annual holiday, enjoy fewer hours of sunshine and our government’s below average spending on health and
education. Oh, and just to round it off nicely we can expect to die two years younger than our French counterparts too.