ISLANDERS will have to lower their expectations and accept jobs historically done by immigrants to weather the economic downturn, the Social Security Minister has warned.
That could be waiting on tables and working in shops, hotels and on building sites.
Deputy Ian Gorst said many people were already ‘having to try anything to get work’.
He made his comments as it was revealed that businesses are being refused licences to take on non-locally qualified staff – forcing them to employ people that have lived in the Island for at least five years.
As a result of the new restrictions, it is likely that immigrants might find themselves squeezed out of the job market.
Deputy Gorst said that staff in his department had noticed a shift in the way that people were looking for work.
