The Polish pull

The Polish economy is expanding, unemployment is falling and wages are going up which means many Poles who left for Britain are starting to return.

This is Marta Wolek who works for a recruitment agency in Warsaw. She used to find jobs for Polish people in the UK but says things have now changed.

Here she tells our reporter Paul Henley why they're launching a campaign to get other Polish workers to come home:

"Now we have so many people coming back we don't know what to do with them."

Karolina is a Polish worker who spent three years in Dublin but has since returned to Poland.

Here she talks about how the downturn in the Irish economy was one of the reasons for her decision to go home:

"I think Poland will be a safer country to live and start a career."

The picture in Peterborough

Migrant workers make up ten to fifteen percent of the working population in Peterborough.

Anthony Davis is the Performance Manager at New Link Centre in the city which gives advice to migrants on health, education and finding jobs. He believes Polish people are leaving Peterborough to go home but workers from other foreign countries are taking their place.

Listen to his assessment:

"We have seen a reduction in the number of Poles registering for national insurance in Peterborough but equally an increase in the number of Lithuanians."

There are no official figures of how many Poles have left but the Home Office reports a decrease in the numbers registering to work in the UK this year.

We spoke to one Pole who works in a warehouse packing clothes for a high street store.

He's worried about keeping his job and whether he'll be able to feed his family. Hear the interview:

"I get £7.62 per hour so that's £1100 per month.... At the moment it's very difficult to live because of the recession in England."

Here are just some of the jobs advertised at the New Link Centre in Peterborough.

Almost all the vacancies were temporary and paying just above the minimum wage.

Anthony Davis says it means there's still a demand for migrant workers who are more prepared than British people to accept such levels of pay.

"Crops still need to be taken out of the ground, foods needs to be packaged and delivered. That still needs to happen irrespective of what happens to the economy."

We asked unemployed British people outside the Job Centre in Peterborough whether they would be prepared to accept any of the jobs advertised at the New Link Centre. Not one of them said they would.

"I wouldn't want to work for them sort of rates what with the hard labour. No way!"

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