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Brussels offers UK firms £1,000 cash 'bribes' to hire foreign workers
Business Minister Matthew Hancock said firms have a duty to hire Britons
Said filling vacancies with well-trained foreign workers was an 'easy option'
Employers receive up to £870 for every EU citizen from outside the UK
Firms can recruit up to 20 foreign workers a year through the EU scheme
By JASON GROVES, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
PUBLISHED: 23:07, 26 July 2013 | UPDATED: 00:02, 27 July 2013
Brussels is offering British firms cash ‘bribes’ of almost £1,000 a time to take on foreign workers.
Thousands of youngsters are also being offered payments totalling more than £1,100 to take a job in Britain under the European Commission scheme.
The extraordinary initiative appears to directly undermine Government efforts to persuade firms to take on British workers as the recovery takes hold.
In an interview with the Daily Mail yesterday the Business Minister Matthew Hancock said firms had a duty to hire Britons rather than taking the ‘easy option’ of filling vacancies with well-trained foreign workers.
The joint initiative between British JobCentres and the European Commission offer incentives including £870 for every EU citizen employed by a UK firm and a grant of £260 for applicants to travel to Britain for an interview
The joint initiative between British JobCentres and the European Commission offer incentives including £870 for every EU citizen employed by a UK firm and a grant of £260 for applicants to travel to Britain for an interview
Firms taking on non-UK workers qualify for a payment from Brussels worth up to £870 for every EU citizen they employ, to help pay for English lessons and other training.
Employers can recruit up to 20 foreign workers a year through the EU scheme, which is run with the co-operation of British JobCentres.
Jobless youngsters across Europe can qualify for a grant of £260 to travel to Britain for an interview.
If they land the job they also qualify for an £870 grant to help with the costs of moving to this country.
Yesterday more than 800,000 UK jobs were being advertised through the scheme – more than half the total across Europe.
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These incentives come at a time when more than half of vacancies in the UK are filled by foreigners.
It is not known how many have taken advantage of the EU scheme. A UK Independence Party source said the EU was effectively ‘bribing’ firms to take foreign workers.
Party leader Nigel Farage said the initiative was ‘utterly reprehensible’ at a time when youth unemployment in this country stands at nearly one million.
He added: ‘With two and a half million people unemployed in the UK, of which 958,000 are under 25, every job vacancy counts.
‘Yet here we have the EU, which we already grossly overfund, advertising our jobs to people outside the UK and even giving them the upper hand by offering financial support to get interviews here and move here. We are essentially paying the EU to give away British jobs.’
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Business Minister Matthew Hancock said firms have a duty to hire Britons
Said filling vacancies with well-trained foreign workers was an 'easy option'
Employers receive up to £870 for every EU citizen from outside the UK
Firms can recruit up to 20 foreign workers a year through the EU scheme
By JASON GROVES, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
PUBLISHED: 23:07, 26 July 2013 | UPDATED: 00:02, 27 July 2013
Brussels is offering British firms cash ‘bribes’ of almost £1,000 a time to take on foreign workers.
Thousands of youngsters are also being offered payments totalling more than £1,100 to take a job in Britain under the European Commission scheme.
The extraordinary initiative appears to directly undermine Government efforts to persuade firms to take on British workers as the recovery takes hold.
In an interview with the Daily Mail yesterday the Business Minister Matthew Hancock said firms had a duty to hire Britons rather than taking the ‘easy option’ of filling vacancies with well-trained foreign workers.
The joint initiative between British JobCentres and the European Commission offer incentives including £870 for every EU citizen employed by a UK firm and a grant of £260 for applicants to travel to Britain for an interview
The joint initiative between British JobCentres and the European Commission offer incentives including £870 for every EU citizen employed by a UK firm and a grant of £260 for applicants to travel to Britain for an interview
Firms taking on non-UK workers qualify for a payment from Brussels worth up to £870 for every EU citizen they employ, to help pay for English lessons and other training.
Employers can recruit up to 20 foreign workers a year through the EU scheme, which is run with the co-operation of British JobCentres.
Jobless youngsters across Europe can qualify for a grant of £260 to travel to Britain for an interview.
If they land the job they also qualify for an £870 grant to help with the costs of moving to this country.
Yesterday more than 800,000 UK jobs were being advertised through the scheme – more than half the total across Europe.
More...
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Tory posters telling illegal immigrants to 'Go Home' branded 'nasty' by UKIP's Farage as Lib Dems demand they be 'shredded now'
Immigration is a constant drain on public services, says Cameron as he attacks decade of 'completely lax' border policies
These incentives come at a time when more than half of vacancies in the UK are filled by foreigners.
It is not known how many have taken advantage of the EU scheme. A UK Independence Party source said the EU was effectively ‘bribing’ firms to take foreign workers.
Party leader Nigel Farage said the initiative was ‘utterly reprehensible’ at a time when youth unemployment in this country stands at nearly one million.
He added: ‘With two and a half million people unemployed in the UK, of which 958,000 are under 25, every job vacancy counts.
‘Yet here we have the EU, which we already grossly overfund, advertising our jobs to people outside the UK and even giving them the upper hand by offering financial support to get interviews here and move here. We are essentially paying the EU to give away British jobs.’
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2379477/Brussels-offers-UK-firms-1-000-cash-bribes-hire-foreign-workers.html#ixzz2aE40tY85
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