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Demand for migrant workers reaches record levels
During the week in which the latest quarterly immigration statistics and the GCSE results are published, new research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) finds recruitment demand for school leavers has fallen since last year, while employer appetite for migrant workers has reached a record high. The CIPD’s latest study on skills and migration in the Labour Market Outlook, based on a survey of more than 1,000 employers, shows that demand for migrant workers has increased to a record high, with a quarter of employers now planning to hire migrant workers in...
News | 23 Aug 2011
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A fifth of firms plan to hire migrant workers this year
More than one in five (22%) employers in the private sector intend to recruit migrant workers in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the latest quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook (LMO). This is the highest level since the LMO started tracking baseline migration data in summer 2009. Overall, about one in six employers (17%) plan to hire migrant workers in the final qua...
News | 25 Nov 2010
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Demand for migrant workers rising
Demand for migrant workers has increased in line with improvements in the UK labour market during the past year, according to the latest CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook report. Almost half (45%) of the 600 employers surveyed report vacancies that are hard to fill, with 21% saying they are recruiting migrant workers for engi...
News | 23 Aug 2010
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Interim limit imposed on number of non-EU migrant workers
...o wish to come to fill skilled job vacancies. This will reduce the number of people entering through Tier Two by 1,300. The Home Secretary added: "The Government promised large scale change to Britain's immigration system – and that is what we are delivering. Alongside the limit on non-EU migrant workers, we have already introduced a requirement that those coming here to marry learn English, and our urgent review into child detention for immigration purposes is under way." Some have expressed concern that a cap on migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) will lead to greater skil...
News | 28 Jun 2010
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Migrant workers continue to plug skills gap
...ersonnel Development (CIPD) and KPMG today released the migrant worker findings from their quarterly Labour Market Outlook survey, a week ahead of the ONS Migration Statistics Quarterly Report. The findings from the Labour Market Outlook survey show that around one in five (19%) employers recruited migrant workers in the past three months, with public sector employers more likely to hire migrant workers than private sector employers (24% compared to 15%). The survey of over 700 employers found that employers are still reporting skills shortages. Around two in five (41%) employers have vacancies that are har...
News | 18 Feb 2010
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Revised guidance for employers who sponsor migrant workers
The UK Border Agency has published revised guidance for employers who sponsor migrant workers...
News | 7 Oct 2009
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Report highlights vulnerability of migrant workers
A new report published by the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) highlights the vulnerability of migrant workers in the UK and calls for the companies who employ these workers to take action. ECCR’s report – Vulnerable Migrant Workers: The Responsibility of Business – highlights the vulnerability of migrant workers in areas where low-skilled flexible labour is concentrated, such as care, cleaning, con...
News | 19 May 2009
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A fifth of firms plan to hire migrant workers this year
The trouble is migrant workers arrive in this country because they think life will be better here, and often it is. I can't blame them for that, we'd all do the same (remember Auf Wiedersehen, Pet?) And Gerald is right, that companies see the value in migrant workers, and not local workers, especially the young. It's a pr...
Comment | 28 Nov 2010
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A fifth of firms plan to hire migrant workers this year
Once again we have the situation where allegedly we have thousands of graduates looking for work but employers recruit migrant workers or send the work abroad. Maybe the whole country should give up work and sit at home and live off the state through taxes paid by immigrants. The government talks about investing in the future of young people unfortunately businesses put profit before the country and young people. No wonder ther...
Comment | 26 Nov 2010
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Demand for migrant workers rising
...le queue, would you not immediately save £50,000 a year by making your entire cleaning staff redundant? I'm only marginally surprised that no-one has yet suggested sending these benefit 'scroungers' that have 'broken' our country off to Afghanistan to fight - mind you, that would only make them migrant workers taking jobs from the local Afghans.....
Comment | 15 Sep 2010
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Demand for migrant workers rising
Makeeda you either attribute someone else’s post to me or you have misinterpreted something I have said. Either way I have not made a case that bringing in migrant workers is necessarily good for the economy. On the contrary, although I understand Chris’ point that if he cannot fill his positions with home grown labour then of necessity he has to look elsewhere I do not think that having high unemployment and high immigration is a sensible or sustainable way to run...
Comment | 13 Sep 2010
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Demand for migrant workers rising
... even if it is on a (very) part time basis, a couple of hours a day, will help to alleviate the stress that some of us are under evry working day, and perhaps be the encouragement that some of these people need to get themselves motivated into finding work.... I have no problem particularly with Migrant workers, but they are generally paid a minimum, less than those on benefits!!! Also... it's a requirement now that if English isn't the 1st Language that the employer must be able to provide certain info (H&S Documentation for example) in the 1st Language of the migrant workers.... keeping translators i...
Comment | 13 Sep 2010
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Demand for migrant workers rising
... commented on early. However what I do expect from this government is a "healthy" job market that enables students to obtain a job in there profession, which we are obviously not going to get!!!,..there is some obligation for the government to help graduates get jobs. Yes, there is need for some migrant workers, nonetheless there is a skilled workforce that is able to take the skilled jobs, they should not migrate people into the UK for these types of jobs, it is not fair on students. My question to Ernie is what skilled jobs is need? As you made a point in bringing in migrants that will be able to tak...
Comment | 13 Sep 2010
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Demand for migrant workers rising
...ing goes wrong. However, we would only be able to employ this policy with migrants from outside the EU. As a nation we are committed, whether we like it or not, to a policy of open borders. It is unfortunate that while Mr Blair was sorting out our position with regard to the possible influx of migrant workers from Poland and other eastern european countries; he failed to figure out that there were going to be lots of them. However, this thread seems to be referring to people who actually migrate here to work... not those who come here with a view to claiming benefits (and Eastern European migrants c...
Comment | 10 Sep 2010
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Demand for migrant workers rising
... that is ruining this country for you. I'm not denying that there are career benefit claimants out there, just don't rely on the bigotted press to tell you who they are, how many there are and what life on "jobless" (?!!) benefits is like. Finally, this thread was about the economic impact of migrant workers (workers, mind, i.e. tax paying, income spending, non benefit claiming members of our community), not who is entitled to welfare.
Comment | 9 Sep 2010
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New system for migrant workers goes live
Tiers two and five of the new points-based system for non-EU migrant workers went live today (28 November).Under the new rules, only employers with a UK Border Agency licence will be able to bring in workers from outside the European Economic Area. Tier two relates to skilled workers, while tier five covers those travelling temporarily to the UK for mainly non-economic reas...
News | 28 Nov 2008
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Demand for migrant workers rising
yes and we all know why they are being employed ,,,, simple maths ,, companies are only concerned with profit , migrant workers are easy to manipulate, do work for less pay , forced to work under pressure etc, any one from here wouldnt tolerate , hence the cheap labour, and thats going to be happening in the construction industry,, even worse than it is now, and again , poor, conditions, made to work in ...
Comment | 27 Aug 2010
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Demand for migrant workers rising
...as 5.8 million. This included 1.4 million on job seekers' allowance and 2.6 million on employment support – until recently known as incapacity benefit. People claiming other benefits – as lone parents, carers and because of disability – are also included. Workplace Law Network - Demand for migrant workers rising. Is anybody out there?
Comment | 24 Aug 2010
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Guidance on migrant worker safety published online
...2006; in the following year, five more foreign workers were killed. With these fatalities in mind, near the end of 2007 the HSE and the construction industry set up a Working Group to consider the health and safety of vulnerable workers in construction. A particular focus of this group is migrant workers in construction and it is hoped that its proposals will help to further improve and increase the significant efforts that have already been made by the HSE and the industry. The HSE Survey of Construction Workers, started in January 2005, suggests that in Greater London, overseas construction wor...
News | 13 Nov 2008
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First UK ID cards to be issued to migrant workers
...sponsored including, in time, a copy of a migrant's identity card. Businesses found employing illegal workers face fines of up to £10,000 per person. Tim Cowen, Director of Communications for transport services company NCP Services, believes this is good news for employers, making the hiring of migrant workers more streamlined for UK organisations: "Employers will, quite rightly, still need to make sure their systems for spotting forgeries are robust, but the biometric cards will cut down on fraud and make it easier for us to do this. "Crucially, it will also help those who genuinely have the right...
News | 26 Sep 2008
