NDTV – Amid increasing curbs on Indian and other non-EU professionals, UK authorities on Tuesday asked companies in the country to stop their “addiction” to recruiting foreign workers and hire local workers instead.
Thousands of Indian professionals migrate to the UK under the ‘intra-company transfer’ and other routes, but recent and proposed changes have been strongly opposed by campaign groups such as the HSMP Forum.
Speaking to a newspaper, Immigration minister Damian Green claimed that the UK economy had become “addicted to immigration” and needed to kick the habit.
He said: “Like all addictions, it takes some time to wean people off but it’s good for you to be weaned off an addiction and it will be good for business in the long run if we have more of an instinct that’s…Let’s find a British worker and, if necessary, let’s train a British worker.”
Denying criticism from business and industry leaders that tighter immigration rules were affecting the growth of the UK economy since it made it harder to recruit workers with the necessary skills, Green insisted that some sector will need to train more British workers and recruit them…
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This is really a long-time subject of hiring local workers instead of workers from abroad. It is a good move for the country involved, let’s hope it will result to good.
Posted by laborci.com | May 12, 2012, 10:30 pm