the only benefit is extra profit to the business owner in terms of lower wages...certainly doesn`t benefit the people who have been employed in the cleaning industry for many years who have suddenly found their positions unworkable because of the low rates of pay the Polish will work for.
There are many builders out there now facing financial crisis within their lives, due to the work they have always been employed on at the correct industry rate for their level of skill and experience suddenly being no longer available because the Polish workers will do it for much less. They don`t worry about a UK mortgage as a lot of the employing companies are putting gangs of them up in rented houses for buttons, the Poles living on a pittance and sending money home to their families where the economy is massively cheaper than the UK.
As long as employers are allowed to rub their hands together in glee at the massive reduction in their wage bill and pocket their subsequent higher profits, they will continue to ignore the implications on the UK worker and employ those people who undercut the established wage in the UK.
I do not dispute the fact that the work ethic is reputedly superior to the average English worker and I would never deny any person the right to employment if they have the level of skills required, but why does the wage for that job suddenly have to be reduced massively? There is no difference in the job being done so the pay should remain the same as it always has been for UK workers.
At the moment, selection for employment is being carried out primarily on the basis of the lower wages acceptable to the Polish candidate. Make the wage an industry wide acceptable level and selection will then come down to experience and other job related employability characteristics.
At the moment, the Employer is getting fatter, the UK worker is getting thinner and the Polish worker is being taken for a ride...but they are ok as their mortgage is getting paid back home.
