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On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:08:03 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:31:45 on Tue, 10 Jan
The last place I worked was a french company and a lot of jobs didn't get
created in the UK, they got "transfered" from france and so did the
incumbent
who had been doing it for a couple of days after being hired in france.
But
it still looks like a new UK job. Win!

Naturally politicians and Guardian readers are either too pig ignorant or
out
of touch to realise this sort of thing is going on all over the place.

Of course it happens a bit, but with only 12% of employees foreign

More than a bit and I wouldn't use the word "only" when saying 12% of the
labour force is foreign.

nationals, there are a lot of regional variations. To be fair the number
in London is higher than average - but most are in minimum wage jobs.
Just 3.2% in IT or telecoms jobs.

I'd be interested to see their definition of IT because my experience is
vastly different.


I've told this before, but I'll do it again

Some time ago, I did a short gig for a 2 man and a dog engineering company
who had decided to expand by taking on a couple of new engineering grads (as
SW/HW engineers).

They had employed one Asian female and an Indian male from that year's UK
graduations.

During a casual discussion with the MD when I said something like "those two
grads of yours seem to be getting on well" he replied with "yes", "and you
know the odd thing was, every single one of the applicants that we received
'looked like them'"

This was in rural Hants.

tim