35,000 jobs taken by contractors from India

[Amiga500]

Salient snippets from a BBC news article:

An ex contractor at BT's Global Services Unit, said IT contractors laid off recently by BT, were told workers brought from India to the UK cost less.

He claimed the overseas workers working in the UK, received about half the rate for the job he was paid.

The contractor said he received £400 a day while the Indian staff would receive £220.

"We're looking at about 35,000 IT professionals coming into the UK frankly in a market that is not short of IT professionals in the incumbent workforce,".

(Her) comments were disputed by Keith Sharp, marketing director of NASSCOM, the body which represents companies such as Tech Mahindra.

"These are not permanent UK jobs. Where we have permanent UK jobs, our preference is to fill those with UK nationals," he told File on 4.

The company was looking to reduce the use of "expensive contractors".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8077579.stm

I swear that if I hear a permie use the term 'expensive contractor(s)' again I am going to stab them in the face with a biro...

[DimPrawn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7K4Q-QM0UA

[MPwannadecentincome]

So here we are nearing the end of the first decade of the 21st century....

Job security is out of the window, so what is left, freelancing / consulting / contracting / self employment or the dole or stacking shelves in the supermarket (they can't outsource that!).

But on the other hand the govt policy and private sector pressure to reduce costs are slowly exporting the jobs abroad leaving those who have no job security with nothing and no pensions (final salary schemes slowly being pushed out) which will only serve to lengthen the dole queues, prolong the recession, reduce economic activity and eventually people will have to emigrate to make ends meet.

Maybe its govt policy as a means of getting house prices down?

I just wonder what is the point of getting an education, certainly not to make use of it in this land.

[MPwannadecentincome]

(Her) comments were disputed by Keith Sharp, marketing director of NASSCOM, the body which represents companies such as Tech Mahindra.

"These are not permanent UK jobs. Where we have permanent UK jobs, our preference is to fill those with UK nationals," he told File on 4.

The company was looking to reduce the use of "expensive contractors". [/I]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8077579.stm

He has to say that, you can't get rid of permanent staff like that. Redundancy means that the job has disappeared or reduced in scope. No such issue for contractors.

[sasguru]

So here we are nearing the end of the first decade of the 21st century....

Job security is out of the window, so what is left, freelancing / consulting / contracting / self employment or the dole or stacking shelves in the supermarket (they can't outsource that!).

But on the other hand the govt policy and private sector pressure to reduce costs are slowly exporting the jobs abroad leaving those who have no job security with nothing and no pensions (final salary schemes slowly being pushed out) which will only serve to lengthen the dole queues, prolong the recession, reduce economic activity and eventually people will have to emigrate to make ends meet.

Maybe its govt policy as a means of getting house prices down?

I just wonder what is the point of getting an education, certainly not to make use of it in this land.

Try doing something useful like teaching instead of posting crap on here.

HTH

[MPwannadecentincome]

Try doing something useful like teaching instead of posting crap on here.

HTH

no that will be outsourced one day too!

[swamp]

PCG is "angered" by abuses of the immigration system causing contractors to lose out.

Makes a change from "welcoming" tax clampdowns. I should really worry if the PCG were ever to get "jolly cross".

[HairyArsedBloke]

“PCG has been campaigning on this issue for many years and we are pleased the Government is listening. We have had a seat on the Migration Advisory Committee’s Stakeholder forum since its inception and we regularly make submissions to the MAC. As a body, it has great and positive potential to reform the system. Our recent evidence gathering campaign has shown that abuses of the system do take place and thus it urgently needs reform. Contractors are losing out, and in a recession, action needs to be taken to protect livelihoods”

"listening" - WTF

"recent evidence gathering campaign has shown that abuses of the system do take place" - we all know that this has been going on for about ten years.

PCG are a load of S>>T

I am so glad that I am no longer a contractor.

However, in a way it's the best thing that ever happened to me. I formed a 'proper' business and took it offshore and now: Hector