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Wednesday 9th February 2011
Estate agents are on a new list of UK jobs that will no longer be open to workers from outside the EU.
The proposals are part of Government plans to raise the threshold for skilled worker visas to ‘graduate level’, meaning that only posts requiring that level of education or training will be open to migrants.
It means the door will be closed to non-EU workers in more than 70 professions, including hairdressers and estate agents.
The move would cut the number of qualifying occupations from 192 to 121, and is part of the Government’s pledge to cut net migration from around 200,000 to the tens of thousands by 2015.
Damian Green, the immigration minister, said: “This is a valuable contribution to ensuring that the immigration system allows firms to bring in people with necessary skills without immigration becoming the first resort to fill a wide range of available jobs.”
However, a cynical EAT would be curious to know just how many non-EU estate agents are working in the UK.
There might be some. Maybe. The occasional ex-US realtor? But has anyone actually come across any?
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Most HR departments would be useless and wouldn't have a clue on how to apply for a work permit anyways! Even for the "right" candidate!
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| Why pick on hairdressers, there are plenty of great Italian barbers? |
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| @cynical EAT: you do know that Pakistan is not in the EU? Or have you never been to an Agency in East London. "But has anyone actually come across any? Are you for real? |
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| Unless they have strong African accent.........we don't want a law suit against us now do we? |
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