Anyone else get tired of reading puff jobs on supermarkets, fast food restaurants, etc saying “100 new jobs created” or “20 jobs” … when it turns out most of these jobs are either zero hours contracts or for 3 hours or 10 hours? Three or four of these “jobs” don’t even make one job. Maybe five or six or more are equal to one full-time post.
Then you go into said supermarket and see lines of self-serve tills or you see queues going outside the fast food shop due to “staff shortages” where the staff never seem to materialise.
Perhaps these companies should have to say how many FULL-TIME equivalent staff they are promising and should then be monitored by Trading Standards!
But seriously, the constant boasting and the house-building that is meant to go with these so-called jobs is seriously skewed as the low hours workers can never aspire to owning them but the big businesses just continue to be economical with the truth.
East Devon Watch 
A good example of misleading information from councils and developers is the Exmouth Premier Inn. Originally promised 50 new jobs, with preference being given to local unemployed. Now it is 25. We don’t know what the full time equivalent of either figure is, I suspect considerably less . The alleged reason? That Whitebread/Premier Inn are no longer putting a restaurant at the side of the hotel. Looks like they have thoroughly conned the people of Exmouth, I doubt though that EDDC planning may share local concerns. It really is time that there were some severe penalties attached to significant changes post planning. If Whitebread/Premier’s present plans had been put forward in the so-called ‘competition’, would they still have met the criteria and won?
When the supermarket on the Estuary was proposed, various developers made claims for the numbers of jobs created (most probably part time minimum wage) yet they ignored studies that suggested that “on average, the opening of a supermarket results in 276 net job losses in retail in the local community” (Source Porter and Rainstrick, The impact of out of centre food stores on local retail employment, 1998) I believe it is but one of several studies that have come to similar conclusions.
Lastly, I still wonder just what the real plan for the bowling alley is.
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