Labour shortages existed ages ago. Don’t make Brexit a scapegoat for chronic underfunding.
Has there been any measurable benefits from Brexit yet? Like any at all?
economists had predicted the impact of brexit on the UK economy before it happened. we knew this would happen.
Labour shortages or a lack of sufficient remuneration? Wages & employee benefits have been suppressed/stagnant for too long in the UK.
For example, considering where it is, perhaps [Rubens](https://harri.com/The-Rubens-At-The-Palace-London) needs to up their pay game? £18.6k in London?. That’s about £9ph and the London living wage is about £11ph. No wonder they’re struggling.
Not that that makes Brexit any less of a shit idea.
There is no labour shortage, just a wages and conditions shortage because companies have got used to paying minimum wage and getting Romanians to do the work because £9/hr looks good over there.
An effectively infinite labour supply meant that there was never any reason for wages to improve, and so they didn’t, with the only people prepared to take such poor conditions (migrants from eastern Europe) becoming ever more of the workforce, as existing residents could’t find work that paid.
Now the supply is less elastic, employers will have to make a better offer to get staff. And this is *a good thing*.
fag packet maths…
There were approximately 1.42 million unemployed in October 2021
There were 1.1 million job vacancies advertised in September 2021
So we have a surplice of about 320k workers in the country.
The question then becomes one of how do we make people work in low paid / poor conditions, often hundreds of miles from where they are living. I’m sure the Tories will have an easy answer to this by cutting benefits or something
Brexit is the book or game that your friend makes you buy telling you it “gets good” but when you ask when its always “the next bit.”
Labour shortages worldwide.brexit ain’t to blame, but keep singing that song
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Labour shortages existed ages ago. Don’t make Brexit a scapegoat for chronic underfunding.
Has there been any measurable benefits from Brexit yet? Like any at all?
economists had predicted the impact of brexit on the UK economy before it happened. we knew this would happen.
Labour shortages or a lack of sufficient remuneration? Wages & employee benefits have been suppressed/stagnant for too long in the UK.
For example, considering where it is, perhaps [Rubens](https://harri.com/The-Rubens-At-The-Palace-London) needs to up their pay game? £18.6k in London?. That’s about £9ph and the London living wage is about £11ph. No wonder they’re struggling.
Not that that makes Brexit any less of a shit idea.
There is no labour shortage, just a wages and conditions shortage because companies have got used to paying minimum wage and getting Romanians to do the work because £9/hr looks good over there.
An effectively infinite labour supply meant that there was never any reason for wages to improve, and so they didn’t, with the only people prepared to take such poor conditions (migrants from eastern Europe) becoming ever more of the workforce, as existing residents could’t find work that paid.
Now the supply is less elastic, employers will have to make a better offer to get staff. And this is *a good thing*.
fag packet maths…
There were approximately 1.42 million unemployed in October 2021
There were 1.1 million job vacancies advertised in September 2021
So we have a surplice of about 320k workers in the country.
The question then becomes one of how do we make people work in low paid / poor conditions, often hundreds of miles from where they are living. I’m sure the Tories will have an easy answer to this by cutting benefits or something
Brexit is the book or game that your friend makes you buy telling you it “gets good” but when you ask when its always “the next bit.”
Labour shortages worldwide.brexit ain’t to blame, but keep singing that song