More than a quarter of a million migrant workers jobs are set to be cut by Home Office.

01/05/2009

More than a quarter of a million migrant workers jobs are set to be cut by Home Office.

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has pin-pointed construction industry as an area for review.

Nursing and care staff will also have the number of vacancies able to be filled by migrant workers slashed.

But the MAC’s proposal, if adopted, would restrict employers’ ability to look further afield for adults’ social workers. For example, they would have to pass the “resident labour market test”, which means they must first try to recruit locally, through Jobcentre Plus and advertising in national newspapers and trade magazines. Only then, if they were unsuccessful, could they look to sponsor a candidate from outside the EEA.