800,000 British jobs advertised to foreign workers in the EU

British jobs are being advertised to to foreign EU workers (Picture: PA)

Thousands of British jobs are being advertised to foreign workers across the European Union despite ?rife? unemployment in the UK.

More than 800,000 UK jobs are listed on a website funded by the European Commission, with foreign jobseekers being offered up to ?900 to cover travelling costs to the UK for interviews.

The website EURES lists a total of more than 1.4million vacancies across the EU, with the UK making up more than 50 per cent of them.

While UK unemployment has fallen by 57,000 to 2.51million, the number of long-term unemployed has risen to a 17-year high.

Under the scheme, UK employers can receive a ?1,000 bonus for taking on a non-British worker, according to the Telegraph.

The jobs are being advertised on website EURES (Picture: PA)

Ukip leader Nigel Farage said he was ?astonished? British vacancies were being advertised abroad at a time when unemployment in the UK is ?rife?.

?The fact that unemployed Brits are being pitted against 500million people across the EU to get jobs in their own country is utterly reprehensible,? he said.

?With two-and-a-half million people unemployed in the UK, of which 958,000 are under twenty-five, every job vacancy counts.?

Conservative business minister Matthew Hancock called for UK firms to employ more young British workers rather than better-qualified immigrants

?I?m arguing that it is companies? social responsibility, it is their social duty, to look at employing locally first,? he said.

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/27/800000-british-jobs-advertised-to-foreign-workers-in-the-eu-3900683/

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