And it will only get worse as things become more automated and don't need as many unskilled employees. This is why immigration controls were needed with Brexit coming about.
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And it will only get worse as things become more automated and don't need as many unskilled employees. This is why immigration controls were needed with Brexit coming about.
It will be when huge numbers can't get retail jobs, warehousing etc because they've been automated then they will have to do the farm jobs or live on UC handouts until they're forced to take some other unskilled job.
Did I, where did I say that?
No there's millions of people unemployed, a large number of them will be unskilled so when the UC dries up for them or they need more than UC will pay then they'll have no choice.
The job centres in places where there is farming work will no doubt be trying to persuade some unskilled folk on UC to take up such positions even if for 16 hours a week or less so they can still claim UC.
It's probably a mix of things ranging from people not applying for certain jobs, probably less so EU workers taking them now since Brexit. We're still working our way out of a pandemic just like the rest of the world it's going to take time for the job market to rebalance.
But you're comparing things to before Brexit. Now if farmers can't use cheap EU migrants then they'll have to advertise for workers, maybe not in the papers, they may contact the job centre about what they have. Farmers may also advertise them through temping agencies but that is more costly for them.
It depends what you ask the job centre, you can't do a heavy manual job if you're on a disability allowance. You should be able to do something within your abilities though, usually call centre type work for people who can speak English reasonably well and have a pleasant customer service type manner.
You need to find where the farm jobs are being advertised first. Usually job centres will have job fair events every so often where they've been in contact with various local employers to do a recruitment drive. If there are farm jobs in the area you are in then I'd expect the job centre or farmers to have gotten in touch with each other for one of these job fair events.
I wouldn't expect farm work is compatible with someone claiming ESA though.
Yes it can be hit and miss even in the same centre. You should have just clarified that they have misunderstood what you were asking. There's no way they should be able to sanction someone who is looking for suitable non heavy manual labour work for up to 16 hours. You should have just referred them to their own literature and asked them to clarify whether the rules have changed if they are telling you something you believe not to be true. Some are very jobs worth types from a bye gone era, obviously didn't get any memo's or staff training on customer service.
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