UK bosses recruit from abroad despite high UK unemployment

Unemployment is at a staggering 2.68million – the highest for a generation.

On top of that leading economists say this situation will get worse before it gets better.

This makes the news that thousands of UK jobs are being advertised in Romania even more shocking.

As the jobless rate soars to 8.4 per cent, Romanian job-seekers are being snapped up in a recruitment drive that has made the UK the favoured destination for the would-be migrant workers.

According to Express.co.uk, online recruitment agency tjobs.ro said British firms were trying to fill 2,434 jobs with Romanian workers.

Many posts were for medical staff, tourism workers and skilled staff, but a quarter of them were for labourers and other unskilled workers.

The jobs are just the latest being offered to out-of-work foreigners while their British counterparts are left dependent on the benefits system.

UK posts on offer in Romania included £2,000-a-month cab drivers, nurses on £24,000 a year and doctors offered £4,000 a month. Other jobs included sales staff, care-home assistants and hotel posts. In December alone there were 9,383 applications from Romanians for UK jobs through tjobs.ro.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of campaign group Migration Watch UK, said: “One has to ask why employers feel the need to go abroad to recruit for these jobs.”

There is proof that a limited number of foreign workers can be good for our economy.

As youth unemployment has exceeded one million for the first time across Britain ,it’s about time we got the balance right.