Recruitment agencies dependent on immigrants working in the UK
March 04 2010 by Liam Clifford
Recruitment agencies are dependent on immigrants who come to work in the UK, according to one agent who works in Wisbech – the setting for a recent TV documentary on migrant workers.
Vicky Collins, from Swift
Recruitment in the town, told Recruiter magazine that her business is still
heavily dependent on workers from abroad, despite Wisbech’s 2,000 unemployed
British people.
“I believe that my agency and most other agencies in the
town would shut down if the foreign workers left,” said Collins, who added that
only five of the 49 people she currently has placed in employment are
British.
UK work visa holders and people who have moved to the UK from
Eastern Europe, have filled positions that are often regarded as being too
arduous, demanding, low paid or unglamorous for UK workers.
Collins added
that most of the town’s British unemployed population is simply unwilling to do
the kinds of manual, minimum wage jobs that her firm offers. The recent 'The Day
the Immigrants Left' documentary illustrated this point, showing that UK workers
didn’t turn up, or walked off the job, when trying the agricultural, factoring
or mass catering work the UK work visa holders were doing.
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