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Unskilled
Unskilled meaning
Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training. | Of a job: not requiring skill or training. | Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.
Example sentences (20)
One such textbook says: If a higher minimum wage increases the wage rates of unskilled workers above the level that would be established by market forces, the quantity of unskilled workers employed will fall.
Is the idea of these Black workers as unskilled connected to the idea of them as unmotivated and lazy—an extension of that?
Surveys show that about two in three French people are against the pension changes, with critics arguing they are unfair for women and unskilled workers who started working early in life.
The superstar fought hard against racist stereotypes in the US entertainment industry, where Asian men were often portrayed as servants, unskilled workers or evil geniuses in Hollywood.
With price being a huge driver, unskilled, unaccountable tradespeople have had the option to build their businesses, of which has cascaded into branding the entire industry as inefficient.
And yes, I mean skills: If you think of workers without a college degree as “unskilled,” try fixing your own plumbing or doing your own carpentry.
But an earlier assessment by the International Organisation for Migration, which has been involved in past repatriation, showed most of them unemployed or in irregular unskilled work.
But those in unskilled jobs on low pay are right to be worried, because unscrupulous employers might well replace them with new migrants on even lower pay.
For instance, when couples are deployed for waste collection work, the male is often designated as the driver — perceived as skilled work, while the women directly collect and handle the waste, which is considered unskilled work.
Major cities across the nation, including New York City and Chicago, for example, continue to struggle with the seemingly endless streams of destitute, largely uneducated and unskilled migrants flooding into major metropolitan areas.
More unskilled immigrants could also create political backlash, and aid the rise of harmful populist politicians.
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Sunday stated that it has engaged 1,680 unskilled and unemployed Tarabans under the President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Empowerment Initiative in the state.
This must also target South Africa’s unemployed youth, including those unskilled, unschooled and graduates.
Unskilled immigrants do not pay taxes, and will probably never pay taxes.
Additionally, senior management, middle management, supervisory and skilled positions were still dominated by whites, whereas blacks constituted between 83 and 96% of unskilled and semi-skilled positions.
Alternatively, Downing Street will come to realise that freedom of movement, cheap labour and attracting ambitious but unskilled people is how nations succeed in the global economy – and what Britain has historically thrived on.
Bharati said the pandemic has resulted in job loss, mostly for unskilled workers, while employers are ready to retain skilled employees in different ways.
I’d like to see a fair immigration policy with the whole world, that attracts people with the skills that we needs, plugs any gaps in the seasonal unskilled labour market and is generous to refugees from around the world that need our help.
If the lobby was low tier or unskilled enough, even a basic bot would not seem out of place among the game's competitors.
Not only graduates, but also unskilled labourers do gain experience from this project," he said.