Fast eine Million unter 25-Jährige sind arbeitslos, weil die Labour-Partei ein hartes Durchgreifen plant

So…. Do we blame the job market or do we blame the under-25s for being lazy? Depends on which paper you read I guess 🧐

I feel this isn’t surprising. It certainly feels like so many people aren’t employed these days and are on benefits.
Small sample size I know but from my social circle of 7 (lol) only 2 of us inc me, actually work. The rest are on pip benefits or whatever it’s called. Got autism, got adhd, “I’m an unpaid carer for a mum that doesn’t really need it other than help getting into/out of bed so I’ll stay home and claim pip while playing computer games all day. “ sometimes it feel s like I’m the only one working, paying bus fare, paying for medication, and yet when I lost my job last year due to redundancy, got nothing other than 60 quid a week JsA and told get a job in 6 month or we cut it. Meanwhile my pals all got ps5 Xbox fridge, iPhone omega, cod modern Ukraine, and haven’t worked a day in their life in some cases all because they’re autistic and get anxious outside. Anyway rant over. Just this sorts thing annoys me. Especially when people who do need it or fall on tough times get nothing. Like my dad’s just had a stroke and can’t work. Is only entitled to SSP according to the gov. Jeez thanks.

More than enough litter to be picked, weeds to be weeded, things to be painted and lonely people to speak to. I’m sure a lot will soon find jobs all of a sudden.

I’ll be honest, I’m surprised its not alot higher than that
Its clearly not a good thing but people have to appreciate just how much volatile the job market is for young people compared to when some of us entered it. And this is before even factoring in the market changes post-pandemic

Like late 90’s there was still enough business about if you were fortunate enough to live local enough to industrial estate/business park you could literally pop over/speak to the security people and grab application forms or better yet just phone and ask.

Plus if you were tech savvy we had that whole dot com boom bust for a decent part time/side hustle if you knew what you were doing

Pretty much what I did, started working while going to college.. I was kinda used to the idea by that point though as I did some weekend work through out secondary and sometimes boot sales with a relative (collectables) so I knew how to make money.. no “bank of Mum and Dad” to fall back on

They need to stop this revolving door of free/unpaid “voluntary” work schemes already, and start paying people on them a min wage.

It’s a breakdown of the social contract. The story we were told is, do well at school, goto uni and study and get a good job out of that, or work after school/do apprenticeships. For a lot of people this is either hard to find work or economically unfeasible to study for 3-5 years relying on part time work.

And if you do do all this, job pay is ass, it’s largely for alienated parts of the service economy that gives no real purpose. If people want to wonder why gangs, far right etc etc recruit so well it’s because of the community and meaning they give people.

If you do not see the economic reasons behind it all and treat them, pearl clutching about culture only acts as a smokescreen to the real injustice. Some of it is a choice, but improve the material conditions surrounding people and it’s a lot easier to choose the socially “good” option

I know at least three people in their 20s who don’t have a job because of anxiety. One even got a free car because of it

Only a suggestion but could we look at the crown estates &. Duchies along with 1m under 25s out of work?

I have a younger brother in this position. He has spent the last few years applying for multiple jobs every week and never hears back. Everything you can think of from Amazon warehouse jobs to car detailing and manual work Including working on farms. Last one he applied for was a trainee farrier (putting shoes on horses etc). He went to an interview and was told he would need to have a qualification that required a four year apprenticeship. All for a position where he would still be a trainee. Whats the point in being a trainee if you’ve just done a four year course in order to qualify for the role?

The fact is that Companies don’t want to train anyone. They don’t want to have to actually invest in their employees. The entitlement of recruiters and employers nowadays is honestly beyond belief

That’s the issue.

Getting children to decide at 16 what their qualifications for work will be is ridiculous.There is no way to retrain if your qualifications aren’t getting you anywhere or if you change your mind or if the job market shifts because if technological advencement, without spending thousands and whilst working . Perhaps when AI starts taking jobs en Masse the government will listen. There needs to be a way for adults to retrain without having to spend thousands and quit a job because the only way to get even a btec is spend three years in full time education. The number of part time or evening courses available and the subjects they are in is an absolute joke.

Sectors that have demand like the housebuilding trades, healthcare, logistics etc should have government funded training outside of work hours. Post lockdown I struggled to find work in the field I had worked In For over a decade and I decided that I wanted to train in a trade to have a fallback. The only way I could do that is to pay for the BTEC at my local college myself, Which I couldn’t afford because I had been laid off, and id have to have no job for three more years in order to attend full time college. Impossible in your thirties. I’m also not convinced in the slightest that it would take three years of full time education for me to learn the basics of plastering.

I think any company that asks for a degree or professional qualification for a role should by law be required to offer equivalent professional training to that level to any existing member of staff. Then they would be faced with either paying extortionate education fees or reassessing whether or not they actually need a degree for that position or could they just provide on the job training themselves. It would also give the hope of progression to every employee regardless of position.

I genuinely believe that if adults could retrain either for free or with seriously subsidised and deferred fees, people would be generally happier across the board and would be better employees. If you were in your thirties and had the chance to be able to leave a job you hate where you’re unproductive and get no job satisfaction, and train to take the job you actually would love, people would absolutely do it in droves. It gives people hope that they can improve their lives instead of feeling completely stuck for life because they picked the wrong qualification when they were legally still a child.

And these million men are just ripe for the right wing grifters to prey on. Society has failed men, which leads them down to the right wing pipeline, no one seems to want to do anything about it.

The decline of society really accelerated after they murdered harambe