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tim... · January 11th 17, 07:59 AM posted to uk.transport.london

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 16:14:15 on Tue, 10 Jan
2017, d remarked:

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.

As most of the rest are patently minimum wage cleaning (etc) jobs, your
interest is misplaced.

Of course, our labour pool will be flooded by British expats sent
packing after freedom of movement in Europe ends.

They always have the option of going native and getting a passport of
their
country of residence. Since they seem to believe life is better than in
the UK
one has to wonder why they don't just do that anyway unless its simply to
be
able to fly back and get free NHS treatment or some equally cynical
reason.

What amounts to freelancers will work wherever the cost-benefit is in
their favour. Brexit removes most of the benefits.

I don't know what it's like in finance, but the inclusion of the Eastern
workers to the pool has changed the scene in engineering for the worst
already.

When I started doing European Gigs you would find 80-90% of freelancers were
Brits (the locals usually being reluctant to live the freelance "life").

On my last one that was down to about 20% and whilst some of the difference
was made up by an increase in (still reluctant) locals, about 50% were from
East Europe.

I have no idea whether this is because they would work for less or not.

tim