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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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As fewer care workers immigrate, the risk of migrant exploitation in construction and hospitality grows
A rise in the number of sponsored visas issued to foreign-born tradesmen, hospitality staff and sales workers puts an increasing number of precariously employed migrant workers at risk of exploitation.
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What does the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill mean for exploited migrant workers?
In this short briefing, we examine some of the legislation's key features and offer three policies that would enable this bill to plug the gap in worker protections.
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