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UK UNEMPLOYMENT HOW ITS CHANGED FROM YEARS BACK?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bongodog" data-source="post: 7791956" data-attributes="member: 1343"><p>Work avoidance has become a national sport, people are commencing work later and later, go back 40 years and 90% would be in employment by the summer after they turned 18, now 50% go to University at that time increasingly that is no longer just for 3 years but a 4th year for a masters tacked on the end. Quite a few then decide they have studied the wrong course and start all over again. Many of them have dgerees that lead to employment that adds nothing to the economy, an example of this is shown by [USER=11104]@onthehoof[/USER] with his photo of 9 people responding to a fallen tree plus the one taking the photo. I would guess at least half will have a degree, yet this is a job that a few years back the local rivers foreman woudl have sent a couple of staff out to deal with it. </p><p>Then you have people who view work as an option they are unwilling to take up, much preferring a mixture of disability benefit, housing allowances and a motability car thrown in. </p><p>if they scrapped motability and brought back the blue plastic three wheeler invalid cars that would soon sort out a few of them.</p><p></p><p>Its not all one sided though, quite a few employers have become exceedingly inflexible. When I started work in the early 80's my employers had a variety of flexible working hours in the factory to allow for ladies who needed to drop kids off to school and pick them up afterwards etc. It was the same for fruit picking and grading locally. Along came Eastern european labour where you could insist on inflexible 8 hour shifts and the employers didn't want the locals any more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bongodog, post: 7791956, member: 1343"] Work avoidance has become a national sport, people are commencing work later and later, go back 40 years and 90% would be in employment by the summer after they turned 18, now 50% go to University at that time increasingly that is no longer just for 3 years but a 4th year for a masters tacked on the end. Quite a few then decide they have studied the wrong course and start all over again. Many of them have dgerees that lead to employment that adds nothing to the economy, an example of this is shown by [USER=11104]@onthehoof[/USER] with his photo of 9 people responding to a fallen tree plus the one taking the photo. I would guess at least half will have a degree, yet this is a job that a few years back the local rivers foreman woudl have sent a couple of staff out to deal with it. Then you have people who view work as an option they are unwilling to take up, much preferring a mixture of disability benefit, housing allowances and a motability car thrown in. if they scrapped motability and brought back the blue plastic three wheeler invalid cars that would soon sort out a few of them. Its not all one sided though, quite a few employers have become exceedingly inflexible. When I started work in the early 80's my employers had a variety of flexible working hours in the factory to allow for ladies who needed to drop kids off to school and pick them up afterwards etc. It was the same for fruit picking and grading locally. Along came Eastern european labour where you could insist on inflexible 8 hour shifts and the employers didn't want the locals any more. [/QUOTE]
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