Why Is There Unemployment When The Number Of Job Vacancies Is So High?

[dave50]

There is no longer any excuse to be unemployed.

[davebro]

Depends if the vacancies match the skills & expectations of the job seekers I suppose. Back in the 60s I was unemployed for a time & would have taken almost any job. Seems like the youth of today are more picky.

[LeonBlank1995]

Single guy in Taunton. Universal credit will pay him about £450 per month. He will also receive free prescriptions, no council tax, various allowances and free access to a food bank. The local authority will also pick up his rent at a local rate of about £600 per month.

The minimum wage is £8.92 per hour. So after tax he has a cjhoice of working a 37 hour week for being about £95 a month better off or he can sit on his lazy 'arris all day and live off the state.

And of course there are those who feel they are "entitled". Because they have a 2:2 degree in Sociology they couldn't possibly get a job in a supermarket.

[THECORBYLOON]

What if there aren't enough unemployed folk with sufficient training or experience to fill all the vacancies?

[teacake44]

That depends on what your call a job. The vacancies you will find include, and will mostly be working part time behind a bar, or some other low paid job, that wouldn't house you in a tent from Halfords. Lets face the truth that the government won't admit that the job market is crap, likes its been for sometime now, even before covid.

[jno]

the minimum wage appears to be about as enforceable as a ban on picking your nose.

"Just six employers have been prosecuted for paying employees less than the minimum wage in the past six years, despite tax authorities finding more than 6,500 violations."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/only-six-uk-employers-prosecuted-paying-below-minimum-wage-six-years/

[CrapAtCryptics]

Many of the younger generation seem to have missed out on the work ethic when they were handed out.

[THECORBYLOON]

DAVE, how many vacancies are there compared to the number of unemployed folk?

[dave50]

There are numerous full time job vacancies in factories around where I live but they are struggling to fill them. Even the young people are not interested, they would rather sit at home in their bedroom all day and play games. Some dont even turn up for interviews and if they do get set on they pack up after a week because they cant be bothered.

[THECORBYLOON]

What about my question to you?

[curlygirlies]

11.31 LeonBlank How on earth do you know all this for sure? Have you spy cams all over your neighbourhood? Your theory is ludicrous. For a start many young people live with their parents and therefore will not get all the benefits you list. What a load of right wing toss. There are plenty of young people going for jobs but when you get 100 people apply for one job they can hardly all be successful first time.

[LeonBlank1995]

If you get 100 people going for one job, there wouldn't be a shortage would there curly wurly? I could post you direct links from Universal Credit and Local Authority Housing, but then I look like an idiot. Can't bloody win on this site.

No you are quite right. We do not live in a benefits, welfare culture. "Shameless" was as far fetched as star Wars.

What planet do you lefties live on?

[Mamyalynne]

UC payments replace HB along with a few other benefits, therefore the single guy won't be getting his rent paid on top.

[pixie374]

I've wondered that for decades, but also realised it's about personality and skills as well. Working in care homes and hospitals, we have always been massively understaffed- it's the biggest problem. And this has been nearly 30 years, so certainly isn't about "young people", who seem the most willing to try new things.
I think people get fussier as they get older- and sometimes an ego, so they believe some jobs are "below" them, especially when they don't really get what they involve.
It may also be transport- but I also know just about anyone could walk into their nearest care home and get a job. Laziness?

[pixie374]

We've had many people turn up for interviews, because UC requires it, with no intention of working. I've always found younger people to be the most willing and flexible tbh.

[LeonBlank1995]

I can 10000000000 billion percent assure you the local authority will pay your rent. If you are on UC it is deducted from your claim after it has been claimed from the LA via the DWP. There are a few exceptions like being a student, but on the whole you get your rent paid from the govt. if you are on benefits or do not earn enough. If I am wrong - please prove it and will happily donate a £1000 to a charity of your choice.

[pixie374]

UC include housing benefit in a claim, but not council tax benefit.

[Mamyalynne]

Universal Credit is replacing the following benefits:

Child Tax Credit
Housing Benefit
Income Support
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Working Tax Credit


https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit

[LeonBlank1995]

You are right pixie licks. But you then claim a CT reduction through your local authority. And remember over 400,000 are still on old style Job seekers and NOT Universal Credit.

But I will let the lefties continue thinking there are no benefits out there. We are such a horrible country aren't we?

[pixie374]

I think you and mamya are saying the same thing ...

[LeonBlank1995]

well if the 5 million on benefits didn't claim housing, there would be a lot more homeless than the few junkies oin shop doorways wouldn't there?

If you go back to my first reply, this is the problem. I live in a fairly affluent area, not posh - just comfortable. And I can assure you there are numerous ex-students from (Bristol mostly)claiming UC and housing where they are better off or near enough the same than getting off their playstation backsides and working.

Universal Credit was installed so the Marxist dream can come true.