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Drop in Skilled Worker visas should not signal pivot to reliance on high-risk short-term work visas
Latest immigration statistics show employers can no longer afford to hire migrant workers via the Skilled Worker visa route. This leaves unanswered key questions about the future of lower-skilled migration.
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Skilled Worker visa route comes under scrutiny for migrant worker exploitation
During a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting, Home Office civil servants acknowledged that the Skilled Worker Visa route has been marred by exploitation, but indicated no intention to move away from sponsorship.
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Set on reducing net migration at all costs, the immigration White Paper is a confused document that is soft on addressing exploitation
The government's flagship immigration policies rely on the assumption that it can safeguard against exploitation by reducing net migration. Not only is this unlikely to have the stated effect on exploitation, it may in fact exacerbate it.
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Safeguarding sponsored workers: A UK Workplace Justice Visa, and other proposals from a six-country comparison
New analysis of six high-income countries’ immigration policies, spurs a coalition of over 130 migrants’ rights experts to write to the Home Secretary, calling on her to give migrant workers more time to change employers, take tougher actions against sponsors, and institute a UK Workplace Justice Visa.
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New hiring requirements for care agencies will not solve the Health & Care Worker visa crisis
We have written to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee calling for greater scrutiny of these changes, and a broader package of reform to help the thousands of migrant care workers whose employers have had their licences revoked.
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