Anyone Know Teessider Ruth Sutherland

She makes it sound like there are 5m people sitting at home watching Netflix all day on £350 per week of benefits.

If people on Teesside are offered permanent employment on £450 per week gross, I am sure those not working without a pension income would accept it if they are able to.

I have a relative that does stay at home and he is under 65 and looks after his elderly mother. He gets £69.70 per week carers allowance and his mum pays the rent and house bills etc. He will be one for the missing 5m.
 
Someone I've known for years was a carer for her parents (both terminally ill), until they passed. She now wants to get back into work, and applied to be an invigilator for exams. There was a big demand this year, and she had the qualifications. She was repeatedly knocked back owing to lack of a complete recent work record. It just needed a recruiter to have some understanding of the circumstances.
I've heard similar stories for people trying to get into the security industry. CVs are checked 'mechanically' and there is no opportunity to explain, should there be a gap.

Employers have had it easy pre-brexit and now it seems they haven't changed their ways or accepted that they now can't keep 'cherry picking' the market. Nor can they avoid the responsibility for taking on entry-level people, or for providing training. Above all they should stop slagging off UK workers as an excuse to import cheap labour. For business it means more profit, but for the wider community it is a false economy.
 
Redwurzel said:
She criticises 60 years olds for not working full time, but are employers treating a 60 year old the same as a say a 25 year old you do wonder when employers say they want people who are "digital natives" Is there age discrimination in the UK?

She seems to have all the facts on how many people are claiming benefits in Middlesbrough, but not how many current job vacancies there are.

I assume there around 15,000 to 16,000 people claiming some form of out of work benefit (14.2% of the working population for her figures) - Are there a similar number of vacancies?

edit - the Government website says 621.

Young males claiming sick benefits is concerning, how many have drug/drink problems? work with illegal drugs? have criminal records? why are so many young men depressed?

The Might Redcar documentary highlighted a young woman who could not get a job as a car mechanic, despite an excellent employment record which is inconsistent with the very bleak picture painted in the Ruth Sutherland article.

Does Ruth have a view on railway workers that want to remain in employment in the rail industry, but may be forced out by compulsory redundancies?

I think she might be an interesting panelist on QT.
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She'd be a bog standard panelist. An ignorant right wing bastsrd.
 
Anton_Berg said:
Someone I've known for years was a carer for her parents (both terminally ill), until they passed. She now wants to get back into work, and applied to be an invigilator for exams. There was a big demand this year, and she had the qualifications. She was repeatedly knocked back owing to lack of a complete recent work record. It just needed a recruiter to have some understanding of the circumstances.
I've heard similar stories for people trying to get into the security industry. CVs are checked 'mechanically' and there is no opportunity to explain, should there be a gap.

Employers have had it easy pre-brexit and now it seems they haven't changed their ways or accepted that they now can't keep 'cherry picking' the market. Nor can they avoid the responsibility for taking on entry-level people, or for providing training. Above all they should stop slagging off UK workers as an excuse to import cheap labour. For business it means more profit, but for the wider community it is a false economy.
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A lot of employers have been used to queues of applicants for jobs like cleaners and seem shocked when they now get hardly any applicants that meet the job specs or the only applicants they have have issues like been out of the jobs market for few years. I am not sure some employers have faced these situations before and many have not fully adapted. As Anton Berg says having to train new staff or take on staff who have been out of the employment market or just a bit different.

I remember 8 years ago, asking if it was possible for our cleaners to get the Living wage and my employer said no chance we just can't afford it. We paid the minimum wage and was told there are plenty of people willing to work for the minimum wage. I think it was something like £5 min wage and £6.50/hour living wage at the time. Now employers seem quite happy to pay £9.50/hour including my old employer (above the old Living Wage after taking into acount inflation). Desperate people might have worked for £5/hour then but they don't forget today including people who came from Eastern Europe. At the airports many staff were sacked in 2020 and are not rushing back to the employers that sacked them, should we be shocked? I can understand employers who were in severe financial difficulties, but airports like Gatwick were not in this position and could claim significant Government support for 20 months.
 
Anton_Berg said:
Someone I've known for years was a carer for her parents (both terminally ill), until they passed. She now wants to get back into work, and applied to be an invigilator for exams. There was a big demand this year, and she had the qualifications. She was repeatedly knocked back owing to lack of a complete recent work record. It just needed a recruiter to have some understanding of the circumstances.
I've heard similar stories for people trying to get into the security industry. CVs are checked 'mechanically' and there is no opportunity to explain, should there be a gap.

Employers have had it easy pre-brexit and now it seems they haven't changed their ways or accepted that they now can't keep 'cherry picking' the market. Nor can they avoid the responsibility for taking on entry-level people, or for providing training. Above all they should stop slagging off UK workers as an excuse to import cheap labour. For business it means more profit, but for the wider community it is a false economy.
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Wonders never cease, I’m agreeing with AB. Have you suddenly realised you’re not a Tory after all.😉
 
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