Why no job for newly qualified Jersey nurse?

A JERSEY-born nurse and her family are outraged that she has been ‘driven away from the Island’ because Health and Social Services will not give her a job without experience.
Qualified nurse Aimée Ollivier (21) has been forced to endure 14-hour shifts and financial heartache on a low wage in a UK hospital.
She and her mother, Clare Cooper, were furious after reading a story in the JEP this week that nurses from the UK were leaving the Island because it was too expensive to live here.
Health Minister Jim Perchard said that they want to start ‘growing our own’ midwives, nurses and social workers.
But Ms Cooper wants the Minister to explain why her daughter was recently advised to work in the UK rather than wait for a job in Jersey as ‘one may never be available’.(from thisisjersey)

Seems like total madness to me...

I blame the sea air myself!!!!

this is happening in all sectors of the workplace.local people signing on and then finding eastern europeans etc in full time employment.

in the hospital here they are mainly Filipino (and very nice too I have no problem with imported staff as long as locals get first shout) But the local nurse who was with my hubby until the end told me she had to leave nursing, as she had a mortgage, and got less wages that the imported people, because they were paid a relocation amount and got accomodation as well!!!! and she ws struggling to stay afloat!!!