Alarming demand. This would force social welfare recipients not only through economic hardship (which they already face de facto), but literally through life-threatening need to do anything to survive - if necessary also taking on illegal employment, accepting whatever they can get. An absolutely inhumane attitude is then the consideration that introducing people into work would be easier with a reduction in social welfare by one-third, and the saying that business leaders have plenty of work in their heads that just wouldn't be profitable is the icing on the cake of audacity. What he ultimately demands is the extortion of socially disadvantaged population groups and the introduction of serfdom - because people in such employment relationships as he envisions them are no longer able to defend themselves against abuse and misconduct due to their situation - for them it's about bare survival.
And someone like that is consulted to assess the business climate.