P-04-414
: Welsh Jobs
Petition
wording:
We, the undersigned, call on the Welsh Assembly to urge the Welsh
Government to encourage employers relocating to Wales, or opening
new facilities and outlets here, to recruit and, where necessary,
train local staff.
Supporting
information:
There
are examples from around Wales of new jobs being taken by, in some
instances, entire workforces brought in from outside Wales. A
mutually accepted definition of a ’key worker’ could
help avoid these situations. It should be restricted to specialised
posts for which the required skills or qualifications are not
available locally and could not be acquired by locals from a short
period of training. Otherwise politicians,
media and others trumpeting ’new jobs’, when these are
effectively denied to Welsh people is, at best,
misleading.
Petition
raised by: Royston
Jones
Date
petition first considered by Committee: 2
October 2012
Number of
signatures: 65