UK announces tougher visa regime to reduce net migration

M.AMINUR RAHMAN 

England on Monday announced plans to slice the number of travelers showing through the legal course, increasing by a third the base compensation they should collect for a gifted job, amid tension over head of state Rishi Sunak for managing record net transfer figures.

The high degree of legalism has dominated the political scene in England for more than 10 years and was a key figure in the 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Sunak has vowed to win control after administrators from his Moderate Party slammed his record ahead of a political contest expected a year from now, with the Resistance Work Party far ahead in public sentiment.

In any case, both organizations and workers' guilds were plagued by labor shortages, secretive areas, and state-run countermeasures for healthy administration and efforts to follow.

Figures last month showed that annual net movements into the Unified Realm hit a record of 745,000 by 2022 and have remained at undeniable levels ever since, with numerous transients now coming from places like India, Nigeria and China rather than the EU.

Home Secretary (Inside Services) James Shrudley said the new measures could reduce that number by 300,000.

"Immigration is too high. Today we are taking an extreme step to reduce it," said Sunak, who is also trying to deport transients who show up illegally in Rwanda.

Sharp said the public authority would increase the base compensation threshold for unknown talent specialists to 38,700 pounds ($48,900) from the current level of 26,200 pounds, but welfare and social workers would be excluded.

The measures include stopping undocumented health workers from getting relatives on their visas, requiring the Health Administration to pay transients an additional charge for use by 66%, and increasing the base pay for family visas.

Tight work market

The moves could spark fresh debate with entrepreneurs who have of late struggled to hire workers due to England's laboriously tight labor market and the end of free development from the EU since England's 2020 exit from the bloc.

In October, the public authority's autonomous relocation consultant recommended scrapping alleged shortage occupations, one of the initial courses for companies to enlist temporary specialists where there are severe staff shortages.

Sharp said that public authorities will end the current structure that allows employers to pay commuters only 80% of the going rate for duties where there is a shortage of workers, and that shortages in the profession will be surveyed.

"We will stop immigration by cutting compensation for English workers," the trickster told lawmakers. "We will create another movement compensation list with a reduced occupation."

In any case, a few investigations have shown that stranger workers have no effect on general compensation or business levels, and the acute shortage of potential to fill the rest of England is a problem for the overwhelming majority of company supervisors.Kate Nicholls, CEO of the exchange body UK Hospitality, said: "These developments will narrow the pool of spare capacity from which the whole economy can choose, and will only destroy the shortages that hospitality organizations face."

"We desperately need to see a migration framework that is good for the cause and reflects the needs of both business and the labor market. The framework is not part of that right now."

The Bank of Britain said last month that firms were finding it easier to list despite persistent capacity shortages in certain areas.

Labor unions have similarly expressed concern over Shrudley's arrangements. Christina McAnnea, general secretary of Harmony, the main association in the Hellbing area, said it spelled "absolute disaster" for the healthy administration.

"Travelers will go to more inviting countries as opposed to being forced to live without their families at present," he said.

news source: Daily Star Bangladesh.