howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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there has been a further rise in unemployment in dover district during february.
87 new people signing on for job seekers allowance, this is a rise of 3.6% month on month leaving a total of 2362.
across kent the figure is 27398, up 3.1% on the previous month.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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And to think that after the Winter period, employment used to rise, as more jobs became available on farms!
Well anyway, it seems the economy is going down-hill, and unemployment rising constantly. The last work I did was digging a garden, which was Tuesday. Tomorrow I get paid for it, and then wot?
There was a time when I worked 70 hours a week, self-employed. Once upon a time!
Karlos- Location: Dover
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Latest figures show all of Kent reducing except Dover. Any ideas why?
(although it's still 300 people less then the date when this thread was started.)
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Unemployment-falls-Kent/story-20337113-detail/story.html
DOVER 3% (2,056, up 81)howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i couldn't work that one out it's not as if one big employer went under.
Brian Dixon
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and that's dependant on how many have gone on training programes or courses ,most if not all have there jsa stoped and then put on another benefit [a £10 a week bribe to do so].
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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A few weeks ago I bumped into a Slovak friend who used to work at London Fancy Box. He told me that the company was being sold to an Italian group and that many jobs have gone. Seems the press might not have picked up on this, perhaps their links into the East European community aren't that good.
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Jan Higgins
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The press know now.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Looks as if there might be a transfer of LFB's manufacturing to Romania which seems to have been airbrushed out in the press releases. I'm sure this accounts for the drop in Dover employment mentioned above. LFB's greatest assets must be the posh corporate client base and order book, not its Poulton Close factory.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Latest numbers are up again (3rd month in a row?) 2183.
From what I can see on other threads numbers were
Aug 2010 - 1859
Aug 2011 - 2196
Oct 2013 - 1975
Feb 2014 - 2183
I wonder where all the jobs have gone from.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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these statistics can be read many ways, according to our honourable member there are less local unemployed on a year on year comparison.
as mentioned elsewhere in the thread people get moved onto training courses and many jobs are zero hours contracts so the whole issue is clouded.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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and unemployment in dover has gone up 3 months running.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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There will be a few ex jobs in the summer weeks in the port but nothing major.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#11, the issue is also clouded because most people don't work where they live. Example: plenty of people work in Dover on the ferries and customs/immigration, but many of them live outside Dover and commute in. If their jobs go, it affects unemployment in Thanet/Canterbury/Shepway/Swale, not Dover. Likewise lots of people live in Dover but commute to London/Canterbury/Maidstone etc. Figures for employment refer to where the jobs are, whereas figures for unemployment are about where the people are. Not the same thing at all.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson