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Skills shortage or not, is it safe to bring in people with experience in technology and comms? These are the skills that you need to remotely detonate bombs.
Fleet in "putting up the barricades" mode
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Work Permits - FTV's etc
PCG has a seat on the Home Office IT Sector Panel, which decides
national work permit policy for IT contractors and determines whether
or not IT workers from abroad should be given prioritised entry to the
UK. In order to help PCG furnish the panel with an accurate and informed
impression of the state of the IT sector and specifically whether or not
there is a shortage or over-supply of skills, PCG members are invited
to fill out a brief, two-question survey about their current contract
status, available online. Responses will remain anonymous:
Please fill this in guys. Our great government are wanting to open the floodgates again on 50 million work permits due to the:
MASSIVE SKILLS SHORTAGE IN IT IN THE UK
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