UK Employers Slammed With Higher Sponsorship Fees In Immigration Shake‑Up

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1. Good. Sponsorships should only be used to employ people who can’t be found in the UK.

   There’s a huge unemployment crisis in the UK for graduates. This will make it easier for British candidates to get jobs.

2. My company is particularly guilty here, we sponsor all manner of IT people from India and our IT team don’t even bother advertising in the UK.

3. Good, well done government, plaster this everywhere.

4. Will they actually obey the law though or just employ people illegally and way more cheaply?

5. Whilst the ultimate aim of this is to lower immigration which i think it will.

   I cant help thinking this extra cost will just get passed onto the consumer (fueling inflation) like the majority of costs the government passes.

   Edit: clarification

6. Should be in the good news sub

7. It was an incredible scam to make native workers compete with the rest of the planet for jobs and claim this was somehow good.

8. I’m in full agreement here, and I apologise if that wasn’t clear. I fully support workforce mobility and diversification, including bringing in skilled workers from abroad where there is a genuine skills or labour shortage.

   However, for too long it has seemed that almost anyone can be sponsored to come to the UK to fill roles that require very minimal vocational skills. This should not be the case when we have around a million 18–25-year-olds who are unemployed and not in education or training. Many of these young people could easily fill these roles if they were offered a fair, living wage.

   I understand the financial pressures that many companies are under, but that is part of the risk of doing business. Profitability should not come at the expense of the electorate. The widespread use of cheap foreign labour only serves to drive down wages and worsen working conditions.

   Why are we spending billions of pounds bringing people to the UK to do basic jobs? My concern is that my children will struggle to enter the workforce when they are young and inexperienced, because those entry-level roles are increasingly being filled by low-skilled migrant workers.

   This summer, my cousin struggled to find work. Jobs that were once easy to get as a teenager, such as working in a pizza restaurant or in retail, are now extremely hard to access. Young people are told to apply online, only to receive rejection after rejection. The job market has become oversaturated with cheap labour, making it far harder for young people to get a start.

9. £1320?! Is that it?! I expecting it to be £10k plus. £1300 is nothing. No wonder the numbers are so high.

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