Unemployment jumps

T.gauci

Aug 4th 2009, 22:37

@alex right

WHAT train illegal immigrants to take my job that i want, jobs of my future children ? no way no one invited them to come here and they should be expelled with no expectations. none of illegal immigrant contribute to our economy it's the other way around, they get everything(education,health care,welfare,mobiles etc.) for free at our expense. a lot of them work and get paid 1.50€ per day without paying taxes, i don't see how can they contribute to our economy with 1.50€ and no taxes being paid!. . if i had to help someone to create a company that would be me and my fellow countrymen not an illegal immigrant. judging by your surname i say you are a foreigner and i prefer if you don't speak on my behalf so go suggest your idea to the country you came from

@Mark Galea

for one thing i am one of the Maltese who don't want to do these jobs but as far as i know Malta never had a shortage of street cleaners etc..how can they contribute to our economy with very low wage and no taxes. did you fail math class ?

lgalea

Aug 4th 2009, 20:47

Mark Galea
It helped more when all foreigners that wanted to come to Malta had to have a certain amount of capital and paid a certain amount of income tax without being able to work. That is when we were much better off. Maltese workers were never shy to do and will do all jobs provided the pay and working conditions are right. The foreigners and illegal immigrants are lowering the wages and working conditions of Maltese workers and robbing them and their families of work in our own country.

alex right
The police and the army would be much better employed in securing our security than saving and guarding ILLEGAL immigrants. The police and army will still be there. We do not want them to learn Maltese and to become employed and integrated in Malta. Can't you understand this simple thing? We do not have enough space and work for our own citizens let alone allowing foreigners and illegal immigrants to settle and work here. And stop referring to Christianity and the Bible etc because they have lost all meaning to us who in the words of the Prime Minister himself are being invaded. We want them EXPELLED.

JB Caruana

Aug 4th 2009, 17:58

A single mother may have to leave her steady job so that she can take, and pick up, her daughter to school. When she had asked the Education Dept to have her daughter transfered to a school in her grandparents locality, she was turned down.
So a self-sufficient, tax paying, law abiding citizen is turned into an unemployed individual overnight just because the Govt cannot assist in logistically moving a child from one school to another.
Govt should realise that keeping unemployement down takes more than just words...it has to listen and feel the citizens needs and do something about it.

victor callus

Aug 4th 2009, 16:23

It is also to be noted that unemployment in June 2009 saw a slight decrease in the unemployed figure as was in May 2009 thus showing abreak in the increase pattern during these last months ( - 38).
One does have to realise that the whole world has been passing trough its worst ever recession during the last year and a half !
By the way Malta still has one of the lowest unemployed % within Europe....

c. camilleri

Aug 4th 2009, 16:14

@l galea. You are wrong as always. Foreigners and illegal immigrants are not taking the job of the Maltese workers and their families but are doing the work that Maltese workers for some good reason or not so good refuses to do. Many Maltese workers find it convenient to register for work and at the same time work clandestinely. Others will only accept cushion jobs preferable with Govt or parastatal organisation. Many refuses even to be retrained for other jobs.What we really need is more enforcement and more seriousness in the social service benefits. This is the situation and please do not try to put the blame on the wrong door.

R.Debono

Aug 4th 2009, 16:03

Maltese do not want to do certain jobs because the employers are not offering good wages for the work they will be doing.....and because of these foreigners the employers are keeping the wages very low!!!!!!

J Martinelli

Aug 4th 2009, 15:34

@ Louis Gialanze et al

And don't you think that those 1350 jobs were offered to Maltese citizens, and refused?

Gianninu Saliba

Aug 4th 2009, 14:56

Am I mistaken? Do I recall Joseph Muscat claim that the unemployment figure was 11,000 plus? What happend to the other 4,000 Joseph was refering to? Sorry, please accept my apologies, Joseph was mistaken, once again he got his numbers wrong.

Louis Gialanze

Aug 4th 2009, 14:52

@Mark Galea
If you believe that the maltese don't want to carry out any kind of work than you are very much mistaken. Given the right money us maltese will do anything. The truth is that businesses in Malta wants to pay dirt cheap wages. Our leaders have given up on making Malta competitive in High Tech and instead see the illegal immigrants as a supply of cheap labour for their friends in business.

Brian Maloret

Aug 4th 2009, 14:51

lgalea

If you are referring to "foreigners" who have come to live and work in Malta from other EU states; they have a perfectly legal right to do so as have those Maltese who want to go to live and work in other EU states.

Mark Galea

Aug 4th 2009, 14:10

@IGalea
It would benefit our economy (and society in general) if these foreigners are working, especially when they are doing jobs Maltese do not want to do. That way, these foreigners won't have time to create problems, pay taxes and reduce some high payments requested by certain workers.

Charles Muscat

Aug 4th 2009, 14:07

May I ask C. Camilleri what the opposition would have done to solve such a problem?

alex right

Aug 4th 2009, 14:04

I would like to add that most people who comment and call themself christian should be ashame, these people have suffered and do still suffer. We help people in need, we try to improve peoples life and we dont blaim foreigners etc for everything that is wrong in the country.
Start collecting clothes that can be given away
Start looking at getting people to give free maltese lessons
Start looking at training these people in different jobs that can make them earn some money
Start to live the way you claim you do through the bible!

Louis Gialanze

Aug 4th 2009, 14:02

Only recently in parlament the minister for social welfare the Hon John Dalli made it public knowledge that close to 1350 working permits have been so far issued to illegal immigrants. This goes to confirm my belief that the people down the lower rungs of society and the unskilled face an uncertain future in malta with the influx of migrants into this country. Multiculturism anyone?

Mark Galea

Aug 4th 2009, 13:57

@IGalea
It would benefit our economy (and society in general) if these foreigners are working, especially when they are doing jobs Maltese do not want to do. That way, these foreigners won't have time to create problems, pay taxes and reduce some high payments requested by certain workers.

alex right

Aug 4th 2009, 13:53

Dont make this a question of foreigners, they also create a lof of jobs at the center, police, army, food etc. Also important to know that each one of the foreigners spend money in shops etc that contribuate to the maltese economy. Help them learn the languages, create companies etc so they participate in the economy the same way that all the foreigners hired by egaming companies etc.

lgalea

Aug 4th 2009, 12:36

And we have thousands of foreigners and illegal immigrants working and taking the work from Maltese workers and their families!!!!!!!

Colin Camilleri

Aug 4th 2009, 12:21

typical government incompetence!!