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International recruitment of care workers has ended, the impact may be disastrous
By ending new international recruitment into care the government will achieve a political aim - reducing immigration. But to believe that it can contemporaneously not harm the adult social care sector is at best naive.
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Latest changes to the immigration rules: ‘a sub-optimal way to make policy’
The Home Office’s failure to first consider the impact of cutting 180 occupations from the Skilled Worker visa, and closing the Health and Care worker visa overseas, has been lambasted by a Lords Select Committee.
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Migrant workers and the National Minimum Wage: Our submission to the Low Pay Commission consultation (2025)
Despite increases to National Living Wage (NLW) rates in recent years, migrant workers arriving in the UK continue to be excluded from the benefit of minimum wage rates - here's why.
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Parliamentary report acknowledges scale of exploitation on the Skilled Worker visa
This report is the most damning evidence yet that the government’s work migration system, premised mainly on the concept of sponsorship, was facilitating the widespread exploitation of migrant workers in the UK.
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Seasonal Worker Interest Group calls for mandatory implementation of the Employer Pays Principle
To protect them from debt-bondage and exploitation, workers should never pay for recruitment costs including visas and flights. The government must implement the EPP, not just as a best practice, but as a common standard
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