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Skilled Worker visas in ninth consecutive decline, as fewer nurses, therapists and scientists come to the UK
Restrictions to migrant workers’ rights and successive increases to employer costs have pushed new Skilled Worker visas to 2021 levels, driven by a loss of overseas healthcare, education, and trade professionals.
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Pregnancy, poverty, and precarious visas: how migrant women are punished for having children
Gaps in protections left a pregnant migrant carer abandoned by her sponsor, her employer, and the state, pushing the new mother and her baby into dire straits.
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‘We are asking for our rights’: when lived experience met legislative power in Westminster
At our first Westminster event, held in collaboration with Neil Duncan-Jordan MP and Unison, migrant workers themselves told MPs and journalists how the “earned” settlement plans would impact their families, careers, and dreams.
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Will the Fair Work Agency put immigration enforcement before workers’ rights?
Following announcements in the budget, we are concerned that the Fair Work Agency's focus and resources are being shifted away from protecting the most vulnerable workers, and towards tougher immigration enforcement.
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'Earned' settlement proposals: an extraordinary betrayal of migrant communities
New Home Office plans to retroactively double the baseline waiting period for settlement, and impose additional English and financial requirements for all, have delivered the biggest blow to migrant communities in a generation.
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