Employment minister, Chris Grayling, has told UK companies
to put British workers at the top of their recruitment
list
Employment minister, Chris Grayling, has told
UK companies to put British workers at the top of their recruitment
list.
Chris Grayling has urged UK companies to put
British Nationals ‘at the top of their priority list’ in a bid to
reduce the amount of graduates and 16-24 year-olds who are
unemployed.
The employment minister also went on to defend
Governments schemes that give welfare claimants work experience
with big firms. With over 2.67 million currently unemployed and the
figure rising every month, the number of non-UK nationals in
employment was 2.58 million, up 166,000 from a year earlier.
Mr Grayling commented that school-leavers and graduates are
struggling to find
jobs because they are competing with more experienced rivals
from elsewhere in the EU. “They come out of school or college, they
don’t have previous experience, they may be up against someone who
has come to the UK from Eastern Europe, who is five or six years
older, who has got work experience already and are quite an
attractive recruitment option for the employer,” he said. Mr
Grayling said that British employers ought to favour British
applicants instead. “It is my hope that every employer in the UK,
in deciding if they are going to recruit in the next few months,
will put young UK unemployed people at the top of their priority
list,” he told Sky News’ Murnaghan programme.
Due to EU laws, it is illegal for British employers to
discriminate against non-british applicants from elsewhere. However
Mr Grayling stood by what he said, “I just simply hope that the
choices that employers make in this country will be to give young
unemployed British people a chance, so it would be bizarre if I
didn’t say that and we’ll do everything we can to encourage them to
do so.”
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