Hello,
Is the following true….
The UK pays 17 billion pounds per year to the EU, and some 6 billion pounds comes back to UK as a rebate.
The EU then uses some of this money to “help” the UK engineering industry with staffing costs. In other words, UK engineering companies can apply to the EU to have “x” number of engineering staff members payed for by the EU (ie the EU effectively pays the wages of these engineers). The UK engineering companies don’t have to actually give these “engineers” any engineering work to do, but just have to declare to the EU that they are working as engineers.
UK engineering companies are keen to employ engineers under this scheme, because then they have a “stockpile” of engineering staff available to them if they are needed.
However, this scheme has its problems….this is because the UK engineering companies are being payed to employ these people, and have no desire for these people to gain any engineering work experience, because then if they did gain experience, then they might just go and work for one of their competitors and be useful to their competitors. –Such “stockpile” engineers are considered highly likely to want to seek work elsewhere because generally speaking, they don’t tend to have much to do in the companys where they work.
So in other words, this “payment of engineering staff wages” is actually bad for the uk engineering industry, because it encourages companys to “stockpile” engineers, when it would actually be better for the uk economy if those engineers went and worked at companies where there was real engineering work for them to do.
Is this happening, this “wages assistance” from the EU to UK?
Is the following true….
The UK pays 17 billion pounds per year to the EU, and some 6 billion pounds comes back to UK as a rebate.
The EU then uses some of this money to “help” the UK engineering industry with staffing costs. In other words, UK engineering companies can apply to the EU to have “x” number of engineering staff members payed for by the EU (ie the EU effectively pays the wages of these engineers). The UK engineering companies don’t have to actually give these “engineers” any engineering work to do, but just have to declare to the EU that they are working as engineers.
UK engineering companies are keen to employ engineers under this scheme, because then they have a “stockpile” of engineering staff available to them if they are needed.
However, this scheme has its problems….this is because the UK engineering companies are being payed to employ these people, and have no desire for these people to gain any engineering work experience, because then if they did gain experience, then they might just go and work for one of their competitors and be useful to their competitors. –Such “stockpile” engineers are considered highly likely to want to seek work elsewhere because generally speaking, they don’t tend to have much to do in the companys where they work.
So in other words, this “payment of engineering staff wages” is actually bad for the uk engineering industry, because it encourages companys to “stockpile” engineers, when it would actually be better for the uk economy if those engineers went and worked at companies where there was real engineering work for them to do.
Is this happening, this “wages assistance” from the EU to UK?