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The State of Migration: The Challenges of Employing Migrant Workers
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Research aims:Non-EU immigrationTo assess:
• How well the government’s current policy is working for employees
• Employers’ response to the increasingly restrictive non-EU route
• The UKBA’s performance
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EU labour immigration
• Key questions:
Are migrant workers preferred to UK-born workers and why?
Why is there such a large proportion of EU workers in some industries? Is it just work ethic and skills?
If ‘work ethic’ is one of the main reasons, what does this mean?
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How?
• Survey of more than 1,000 employers, conducted with YouGov
• 16 in-depth interviews with employers across different regions, sizes and sectors. Key sectors included social care, retail, hotels, catering and leisure.
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UKBA performance:
• Employers more critical of the administrative burden than government policy:
Preparation time for an inspection
Response times following inspections
Fear of making a mistake
Quality of UKBA advice
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Policy gripes:
• Resident Labour Market Test
“I rarely, if ever, receive applicants for our positions advertised in JobCentrePlus”.
• “Cooling off period”
“The fact that you cannot return is madness. You have to think what this means … before you make offers”
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Policy recommendations:
• Drop the requirement to advertise in JobCentre Plus as part of the Resident Labour Market Test
• Should the MAC be given a role in overseeing the administrative impact of the policy?
• Retain shortage occupation routes.
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Policy recommendations (Contd.)• Relax restrictions around extending visas, especially in
relation to Tier 5 or even Tier 1
• Re-open post-study worker route for growth sectors/ STEM subjects
• Freeze Tier 2 visas for the lifetime of the Parliament
• Remove ‘cooling off’ period for those earning 70k or more
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Growth in number of non-UK born workers in low-skilled roles:
And the reasons?
• Skills
• Work ethic
Unsocial hours (weekend work, night shifts): “They [migrant workers] are happy to try their hand at anything”
• Larger labour supply from EU
• Employee job referrals
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Recruitment consultancies
• Nearly a third of private sector employers use them to hire MWs
• Several cases of active recruitment from host country
• Relationship between very high proportion of migrant workers and use of agencies for unskilled work
“They [recruitment agencies] are exclusively there to
recruit migrant workers”
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High attrition rates among UK-born workers• Poor image of the sectors, especially in retail, hotels
and catering and leisure
• Pay and employment conditions
“It’s difficult to compete with Tesco down the road”
• Failure of employers to sell potential progression paths, especially for job-entry roles.
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