How new recommendations on employing overseas workers could affect UK tech companies
Kerry Garcia is partner at Stevens & Bolton LLP. In this article, co-authored by Serena Spink, associate in the Employment team at Stevens & Bolton LLP, she explores how Migration Advisory Committee recommendations on employing overseas workers could impact UK technology firms.
Employers in the tech sector often struggle to find suitable candidates to fill key roles, meaning many have to look outside of the EEA for suitable candidates. However, there are already a number of hurdles, which often make it difficult for employers to hire non-EEA nationals.
Despite this, the UK government continues to insist net migration figures must be reduced and employers must be less reliant on overseas workers. The government tasked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to consider whether there are ways to further restrict migration under Tier 2 of the points based immigration system.
The Tier 2 route enables skilled migrants with job offers to come to the UK to fill a gap in the UK labour market. This category enables organisations to transfer employees from international offices to the UK under the Intra-Company Transfer (ICT) category and to recruit new hires under the Tier 2 (General) category.
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Some EU states practicing hypocrisy over refugee crisis: Mogherini
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has criticized some members of the 28-nation bloc for hypocrisy over the refugee crisis unfolding in Europe.
"We risk this cycle that countries ask for European responses, then they prevent these European responses from taking place," she said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday.
The senior EU diplomat further said a number of European statesmen and legislators are taking advantage of the refugee crisis for electoral purposes.
Europe is divided over how to deal with the flood of people, mainly fleeing the deadly conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. While some European leaders support an open-door refugee policy, others prefer controlling the EU's external borders.
French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron warned that time is running out to come up with a collective and viable solution to the huge influx of refugees into the continent.
"We have a few weeks to concretely deliver our options... otherwise you have country-by-country solutions (and that is) the beginning of the dismantling for sure," he said.
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Could the refugee crisis really break up the European Union?
Today's 43 new deaths by drowning in the Aegean Sea brought Europe's migration crisis sharply back into focus just as the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, warned that unless the flow of refugees is better managed, it could cause the break-up of the European Union.
How serious is the refugee crisis?
More than a million migrants and refugees came to Europe last year, mostly via Turkey. Although winter was expected to slow the pace, 35,000 have arrived in the first three weeks of January, compared with 1,600 for the whole month last year.
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Government considers plans to take in more refugee children
The Government is considering plans to take in more unaccompanied refugee children amid Europe's migrant crisis, International Development Secretary Justine Greening has said.
Ministers have faced calls led by the charity Save the Children for 3,000 refugee children living alone in Europe to be resettled in the UK.
Greening said the Government is "looking at whether we can do more".
We've steadily evolved our approach as this crisis has evolved, we've been right at the forefront frankly of helping children who've been affected by this crisis and will continue to look at how we can do that over the coming days and weeks.
– JUSTINE GREENING, SPEAKING ON SKY NEWS
The Prime Minister earlier told the Commons they were carefully considering the plan and "looking at the 3,000 in good faith".
Ms Greening rejected accusations the Government was not doing enough to tackle the wider migration crisis.
Ms Greening said coming to Europe was a "last resort, not a first resort" for many refugees.
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Call to admit refugee children 'considered' by government
The government is looking at calls to take in thousands of unaccompanied refugee children who have made it into Europe, a Cabinet minister says.
Charities have been calling on the UK to admit 3,000 child refugees as part of its response to the migrant crisis.
International Development Secretary Justine Greening said ministers were considering "whether we can do more" for unaccompanied children.
Downing Street sources say no decision has been made yet.
Speaking on Sky News, Ms Greening said children "have always been at the heart of our response".
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UN's new refugee agency head says Europe could do more
EU states could take more genuine refugees from Syria if they worked together better, the new head of the UN refugee agency has told the BBC.
Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi, who took over the post from Portugal's Antonio Guterres this year, was speaking on a visit to Lebanon.
Mr Grandi also urged the EU to do more for Syrian refugees outside Europe.
EU leaders have warned of a crisis after more than a million migrants entered illegally last year.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told the BBC this week: "If Europe can't protect its own borders, it's the very idea of Europe that could be thrown into doubt."
On Friday, his Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte, warned: "When spring comes and the numbers quadruple, we cannot as the EU cope with the numbers any longer."
The new UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been meeting refugees in camps in Lebanon and Jordan.
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Corbyn visits Jungle refugee camp and urges UK to take more – as hundreds storm port
JEREMY CORBYN has urged the Government to take in more refugees as he visited the infamous "Jungle" camp in Calais.
During an unannounced trip to the refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk, the Labour leader said: "We have to do more." Yet within hours of Corbyn's visit, migrants stormed Calais harbour and boarded the Spirit of Britain ferry, forcing authorities to close the port.
During a 2,000-strong protest led by French leftists, police lines were breached and, amid clouds of tear gas, migrants prised open a fence allowing them to get to the docks. Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart said several hundred entered the port and 50 boarded the ferry.
P&O said: "The Port of Calais is resolving a security incident. As a result our vessels are subject to delay of between 90 and 120 minutes."
Ferry company DFDS tweeted: "The Port of Calais has been temporarily closed due to a migrant invasion, as soon as they are cleared the port will re-open."
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Migrants with more than one wife will get EXTRA benefits under new reforms
IMMIGRANTS with many wives will actually get extra benefits under reforms to Britain's welfare system.
Polygamous marriages, largely confined to Muslim families, are recognised in Britain only if they took place in countries where they are legal.
At present additional wives can receive reduced individual income support, meaning the husband and his first wife receive up to £114.85. Subsequent spouses living under the same roof receive a reduced allowance of about £40 each.
Under the new system of universal credit, polygamous marriages are not recognised at all.
But a House of Commons library paper, published earlier this month, has highlighted a loophole that will allow additional wives to claim a full single person's allowance while the husband and his first wife still receive theirs.
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Britain 'poised to open door to thousands of migrant children'
David Cameron considering calls by charities as Jeremy Corbyn, who on Saturday visited refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk, urges emergency steps
David Cameron is considering plans to admit thousands of unaccompanied migrant children into the UK within weeks, as pressure grows on ministers to provide a haven for large numbers of young people who have fled their war-torn homelands without their parents.
Amid growing expectation that an announcement is imminent, Downing Street said ministers were looking seriously at calls from charities, led by Save the Children, for the UK to admit at least 3,000 unaccompanied young people who have arrived in Europe from countries including Syria and Afghanistan, and who are judged to be at serious risk of falling prey to people traffickers. Government sources said such a humanitarian gesture would be in addition to the 20,000 refugees the UK has already agreed to accept, mainly from camps on the borders of Syria, by 2020.
Following a visit to refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk on Saturday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on Cameron to offer children not just a refuge in the UK but proper homes and education, equivalent to the welcome received by those rescued from the Nazis and brought to the UK in 1939. "We must reach out the hand of humanity to the victims of war and brutal repression," he said. "Along with other EU states, Britain needs to accept its share of refugees from the conflicts on Europe's borders, including the horrific civil war in Syria.
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How Immigrants Fit Into America's Economy, Now and 100 Years Ago
Immigration isn't exactly a new occurrence in the United States. Still, despite a rich history of welcoming strangers into the country, it seems that the voices of critics calling for stricter immigration policy only get louder and fears over the negative economic impact immigrants might have continue to grow. It's worth asking, in a country where nearly everyone's ancestral line includes an immigration story, how things got that way.
A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research compares immigrant pools in the past to the present to determine what has changed about the groups of people destined for a new life in the U.S., and what happens once they arrive.
The study's authors, Ran Abramitzky of Stanford University and Leah Platt Boustan of UCLA, focus on two specific waves of immigrants: Those who arrived in the U.S. between 1850 and 1920, and those who have arrived in the past few decades. First, they found significant differences in country of origin: The historical group is primarily composed of Europeans while current immigrants are much more likely to hail from Asia and Latin America. That difference is important for many reasons.
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Refugees vs The EU Economy
n general terms refugees are said to be draining precious European resources, requiring accommodation, food supplies and basic facilities. Since 50% of the refugees are minors the provision of adequate educational systems also creates a vibrant discussion subject. Naturally, the spending pool is tightly connected with a host country and its so-called vision for immigrants' future. Solely in 2015, Germany spent €10bn on arrival screenings, shelter provision, refugee camps and so forth. Nevertheless, the majority of the aforementioned amount was destined for individual benefits of approximately €12,000 annually per refugee and that on top of already provided facilities. This was a prime critique of a typical base salary German worker earning €2,183 monthly for 8-10 hours working days, shocked by the gratitude of financial support towards migrants.
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