Certain businesses can milk it though as the salary requirements are set often 50% below the market rates. You can get a web developer from India for £26.8k and then sell their service for £500 a day. Massive profit and little tax paid thanks to those companies having a very convenient exemption from IR35.
Who would have thought, companies inflated job offer numbers to keep the labor market shitty?
I don’t get the system at all. Care work is already minimum wage, and the visas will be set below that. What good is it importing more low skill, low value workers, many of whom are ending up destitute and then disappearing off the radar? This could be viewed as a legal route to seek asylum at best – how many of the people who pay ‘agents’ then go on to claim they have been trafficked? What a joke the UK is becoming.
At what point is this just people paying agents to get into the country.
Skilled worker visa’s should be paid at the **average** of the position that they are coming over to do, otherwise, people actually in this country never have a chance of getting into the profession, making the problem something that never goes away.
Is this part of the Home Office, Stop the Boats plan?
If I understand the story correctly…
1. We have a massive shortage of carers
2. There are lots of carer roles that are currently vacant, and companies who are struggling to fill those roles
3. She wanted to come to the UK and work as a carer
4. Because of 1 and 2, she was awarded a skilled worker visa because we need people like her to come here and work as carers
5. The *specific* carer that she was meant to come to the UK to do didn’t exist and was part of some kind of fraud
6. She has the right to work here as a carer and would like to work as a carer
I realise that this story is about point 5, and that’s something that should be investigated. But I don’t understand why she’s currently out of work rather than slotting into one of the other thousands of vacant carer roles?
Is there some sort of bureaucratic red tape that’s stopping her from taking another role (eg. her visa only applies to that one, specific, non-existant role)? If so, that’s an absolute scandal and that problem needs to be resolved right away!
If there are thousands of people in this position, getting them into work would be better for them, better for the taxpayer (because they won’t need state support), better for the economy (they’ll be working and spending), better for their employers and better for the enormous number of people who need care and who are suffering miserably because of the shortage of carers!
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Certain businesses can milk it though as the salary requirements are set often 50% below the market rates. You can get a web developer from India for £26.8k and then sell their service for £500 a day. Massive profit and little tax paid thanks to those companies having a very convenient exemption from IR35.
Who would have thought, companies inflated job offer numbers to keep the labor market shitty?
I don’t get the system at all. Care work is already minimum wage, and the visas will be set below that. What good is it importing more low skill, low value workers, many of whom are ending up destitute and then disappearing off the radar? This could be viewed as a legal route to seek asylum at best – how many of the people who pay ‘agents’ then go on to claim they have been trafficked? What a joke the UK is becoming.
At what point is this just people paying agents to get into the country.
Skilled worker visa’s should be paid at the **average** of the position that they are coming over to do, otherwise, people actually in this country never have a chance of getting into the profession, making the problem something that never goes away.
Is this part of the Home Office, Stop the Boats plan?
If I understand the story correctly…
1. We have a massive shortage of carers
2. There are lots of carer roles that are currently vacant, and companies who are struggling to fill those roles
3. She wanted to come to the UK and work as a carer
4. Because of 1 and 2, she was awarded a skilled worker visa because we need people like her to come here and work as carers
5. The *specific* carer that she was meant to come to the UK to do didn’t exist and was part of some kind of fraud
6. She has the right to work here as a carer and would like to work as a carer
I realise that this story is about point 5, and that’s something that should be investigated. But I don’t understand why she’s currently out of work rather than slotting into one of the other thousands of vacant carer roles?
Is there some sort of bureaucratic red tape that’s stopping her from taking another role (eg. her visa only applies to that one, specific, non-existant role)? If so, that’s an absolute scandal and that problem needs to be resolved right away!
If there are thousands of people in this position, getting them into work would be better for them, better for the taxpayer (because they won’t need state support), better for the economy (they’ll be working and spending), better for their employers and better for the enormous number of people who need care and who are suffering miserably because of the shortage of carers!