Possible good news all round.

**SussexSeagull** · 25 January 2016, 00:25

I wouldn't have thought it would make nay difference to the IT industry (appreciating not everyone on here works in IT).

As the report suggests, would hit Nursing (which does need immigration) quite hard.

**NotAllThere** · 25 January 2016, 06:03

Not really on topic for Business and Contracts, so moved to General.

**Troll** · 25 January 2016, 08:38

Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

Not really on topic for Business and Contracts, so moved to General.

More Mod bullying

- I expect PG will be along shortly with a comment

**d000hg** · 25 January 2016, 08:55

Well lots of IT-migrants come from countries now within the EU anyway.

**DaveB** · 25 January 2016, 09:00

Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

Not really on topic for Business and Contracts, so moved to General.

Also KUATB

**vetran** · 25 January 2016, 09:10

Currently, those wanting to work in the UK must be offered a starting salary of £20,800. There are some higher thresholds specific to individual roles.
In 2014, 151,000 skilled workers and their dependants arrived in the UK or were allowed to stay on.
The committee said raising the salary threshold to £30,000 would have excluded almost 28,000 people in 2014 - or about 18% of the total.

that's the good bit,

**Lost It** · 25 January 2016, 12:33

Originally posted by vetran View Post

that's the good bit,

So... Does this mean that "home grown" workers pay rates are above, below or similar? For instance if the companies are paying people they bus in more, that's never going to go down well...

**vetran** · 25 January 2016, 12:40

Originally posted by Lost It View Post

So... Does this mean that "home grown" workers pay rates are above, below or similar? For instance if the companies are paying people they bus in more, that's never going to go down well...

The general feeling is that the reason they are bussing in people from abroad is because they are cheaper that was definitely my experience.

Previous end user outsourced to an Indian outsourcer via their Indian business (so shipping profit offshore) then shipped in people they were paying £12k. You can't compete with that. A well known mutual 3rd parties staff were not impressed with their skills just like us. The proof of the pudding was in the multiple outages under their time.

The loss of the tax revenue in the UK was in the millions.

**BrilloPad** · 25 January 2016, 12:57

Are IT workers still classified as skilled? Or are we glorified typists?

Possible good news all round.