Domino's Britain upset at immigration laws-can't get workers

[EVT1]

www.nbcnews.com/business/britain-dominos-pizza-maybe-you-should-pay-better-wages-2D11724104

     Domino's chief executive, Lance Batchelor, who is quitting his role next year, said he had been unable to fill 1,000 jobs due to a shortage of labor in Britain caused by tighter immigration rules and Britons not wanting the work.

     "We're struggling to get enough employees. Since the immigration laws were tightened up two or three years ago, we are finding it harder and harder to hire staff, especially in London and the South East (of England)," Batchelor told London's Evening Standard newspaper.

     "Mr. Batchelor was talking about hiring people in his particular pizza chain and it seems to me that if you have jobs available and you can't fill them he perhaps ought to just reflect on the salary package that he is offering," Harper told members of parliament in the home affairs select committee on Tuesday.

     Harper insisted that the government will not make it easier to "import relatively unskilled labor," just so the Domino's boss could "keep his wages low." He said the pizza delivery chain has a huge pool of workers in the European Union to choose from.

    What a pickle for the GOP here- get tough on immigration and businesses lose cheap labor- what will they ever do. 

[zibazinski]

This is the problem when you have a welfare sister that trains people they are too good to work.

[zibazinski]

System.

[workpublic]

What a pickle for the GOP here- get tough on immigration and businesses lose cheap labor

when has the GOP ever been "tough" on immigration? they love illegals.

[zibazinski]

Is funny, isn't it? I'd think the GOP would want welfare recipients to work and not import illegals but it doesn't seem to work that way. I know why dems want illegals in but to me, it makes no sense for the GOP. Especially when their constituents want the illegals out.

[workpublic]

most estates have illegals working on them. and since all "rich people" are republicans, there's the connection.

[jkapp]

Dec 11, 2013 22:53:45 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

www.nbcnews.com/business/britain-dominos-pizza-maybe-you-should-pay-better-wages-2D11724104

     Domino's chief executive, Lance Batchelor, who is quitting his role next year, said he had been unable to fill 1,000 jobs due to a shortage of labor in Britain caused by tighter immigration rules and Britons not wanting the work.

     "We're struggling to get enough employees. Since the immigration laws were tightened up two or three years ago, we are finding it harder and harder to hire staff, especially in London and the South East (of England)," Batchelor told London's Evening Standard newspaper.

     "Mr. Batchelor was talking about hiring people in his particular pizza chain and it seems to me that if you have jobs available and you can't fill them he perhaps ought to just reflect on the salary package that he is offering," Harper told members of parliament in the home affairs select committee on Tuesday.

     Harper insisted that the government will not make it easier to "import relatively unskilled labor," just so the Domino's boss could "keep his wages low." He said the pizza delivery chain has a huge pool of workers in the European Union to choose from.

    What a pickle for the GOP here- get tough on immigration and businesses lose cheap labor- what will they ever do. 

The opposite pickle the democrats have when they call for higher wages AND more low-skilled, cheap immigrant labor.  Or maybe that's more of an irony...