Llandrindod wells has an unemployment figure at near 4%,that is above national average,over the last ten years major employerswith the town mostly factories have succumbed to the global market and have either closed or laid off large amounts of staff.Two of these factories were established in the town for over twenty years and have now closed.theremainding large factory employer has recently laid off a quarter of its staff,some of these were natural wastage such as voluntary redundancy.
that leaves two small supermarkets and the hotel metropole as the only providers of 'unskilled' work available.Somerfield has a good mix of workersi.e. women,young people,locals.Aldi who arrived after the demise of Kwik save only employ around twenty which is dissapointing.The hotel Metropole has a staff of around 90!apart from around 8 the remainder are short term economic migrants!
nothing wrong with that! its not their fault!
but there must be a reason why The Metropole dont employ locals!
Must be the way they treat their staff!
Llandrindod job centre is full of young people who could be employed at the Metropole!
sp why arent they.
Because economics are more important than the local community to the Metropole!