Immigration cap is bad for British business

[MrMark]

Immigration cap is bad for UK business, say government advisors - Telegraph

The evidence reveals that one leading City law firm has been set a cap that is lower than the number of people it needs to hire from outside Europe. The firm says that the employees from Japan and the US are vital if it is to maintain its global competitive edge.

Sounds fair enough to me. They obviously can't find talented people among 500 million in Europe, so open the borders....

Some interesting comments on that page too.

[AtW]

Require £50k minimum permanent salary as condition of workpermit issued (very high penalties for lies in applications, non payment) - that would sort out 90% of the problems.

[RichardCranium]

After all, how is a London law firm to cope making do with people that studied UK & European law?

[Green Mango]

Immigration cap is bad for UK business, say government advisors - Telegraph



Sounds fair enough to me. They obviously can't find talented people among 500 million in Europe, so open the borders....

Some interesting comments on that page too.

My client employs plenty of Indians and that seems to be because not enough do systems/software courses and not enough want to
work in engineering. UK engineering rates not being especially generous.