so basically we are being asked to immigrate workers. to do the work we are trying hard to secure....
fearsome no - annoying slightly.
concentrate on your own country pal, we'll concentrate on ours.
any workers i'll be employing will be young lads from our local schools who currently are struggling to get apprenticeships due to us being overrun by the eastern block.
I can understand you , and I imagine how this is look like from your point of vue.
Anyway, a part of me still don-t understand why a native GB must be better than me and must have more rights on a free market than any other.
I can say foreign companies are more than present in our countries and I never heard anybody to complain that we must compete with them. Simply all we have to do is trying to be as good or better than them or like any competitor no matter where he come from.
The idea : "The Island is only for us - any stranger must go home or anywhere he wants but leave us alone" do not seem to me some modern or superior or civilized issue . We admire and look with respect to countries like GB because of it-s past, it-s democracy and civilized ppl.
I will not lie and I admit I would like to experience a little bit of what UK means.
So , I don-t know what is stronger : the idea that is not fair to be present on the UK market because I will disturb the labour market or the desire to work and experience being there. !?!?
Still on the local market,
Tiby.
As long as all your employees took the acs courses and passed, I could see no problem ,but as some of the questions are double negatives and nonsensical to me an english speaker by birth I cant see your lads passing very easily.
I agree with that. Sincerely I didn-t hear nobody here at home to intend to go working in UK as a professional (other than me) just underqualified workers in agriculture.
I studied the ACS schemes and the steps of being a acreditted heating engineer in Uk and it is not easy. Also it seems the competition is very tuff and that-s why the level of services must be very high in order to make money .
Still I have no doubts I can do it if I want. Here an engineer must have a solid theoretical backround. For example only after graduation a minimum 12 years school + 5 years technical college as a mechanical engineer with bachelor diploma we can begin the steps for accreditation as individuals.
Not to mention the field experience. We also must have separate courses for each type of boiler we are dealing with the boiler manufacturer wich we must repeat yearly. Any accreditation we must renew after 2 years.
For example it seems to me that the meaning of "heating engineer" is different . Here there are no engineers who makes plumbing work. These are made by plumbers. Those who are working with "on hand" boiler servicing are "technicians". There are a few engineers yet with "on hand" experience . Mainly the ones who happens to like to do it and are passioned in it. Otherwise, the "Mr engineer" have other responsabilities as supervising, design, tendering, dealing with the client and so.
The issues are more restrictive with the companies accreditations. Here the regulations do not permit to work as individual only as part of an accredited company. All companies in the area must have latest ISO management quality implemented. The list of requirements is too long and annoying to type.
So I do not feel that I cannot pass the ACS at all.
There are other things I am thinking about.
With respect,
Tiby
Still at least we have free speech in this little island of ours
