Unemployment 'Will Keep Rising In 2010'

"The number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work has reached a record high of 943,000, meaning almost one in five are not employed".

"Unemployment will continue to rise next year, Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper has told Sky News".

"Ms Cooper said she was looking to get more help from employers".

This is not surprising at all.
The majority of staff at two local companies that I know of are employing an unacceptably high number of foreign nationals, mainly Poles and Russians.

95% of the fruit packers at Cross and Wells on the Eurolink Estate at Sittingbourne are foreign nationals.
And around 75% of the warehouse staff at Morrisons in Swale are Polish or Russian.
These are just two companies that I've been made aware of.
If this pattern is replicated throughout the country it comes as no surprise that unemployment is at an all time high.

Ms Cooper would do well to start investigating how many companies in the UK are employing mainly foreign nationals.