Foreign Nationals Working at the Jobcentre

Why Not Employ Unemployed Brits Instead?

Have you ever been unemployed? If so, you may have registered with your local Jobcentre Plus, the organisation there to help you find work. Or is it?

2,983 Jobcentre employees have a non-British nationality, according to a disclosure from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). That’s right, the state hires thousands of foreign nationals to help solve the problem of locals being unemployed!

UK (ex-NI) Jobcentre workers with non-British national identity

“Why not hire locals instead?” I hear you cry. How could you say that!? What are you, some kind of bigot?

All jokes aside, the DWP follow standard civil service recruitment policies regarding nationality, so the rather unusually sounding practice of hiring foreign nationals to address domestic unemployment prevails. The state also has a semi-formal racial preference hierarchy for recruitment, with middle-aged white British men at the bottom of the pile for being “too pale, stale and male”. That’s partly why only 22% of London's Job Centre workers are even recorded as White, let alone White British.