Most of the businesses have told the Government not to cut the number of foreign staff entering to the UK via company transfer or risk damaging economic growth. The CBI and British Chambers of Commerce have counsel ministers not to taper the number of vagrant workers allocate into the United Kingdom via the so-called intra company transfer route, claiming it is vital for companies to access the specialist skills they need. The Chairman of the Government migration advisory committee, Professor David Metcalf stated that “the minister should review the rules governing ICTs if they want to stick to a pledge to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands”. To fill UK jobs under the ICT scheme, new figures revealed businesses are being allowed to bring in almost 30,000 skilled non-EU workers a year which is exempt from the annual immigration cap.
The figure that has grow but the half in two years, dwarfs the 10,000 skilled employees who are being authorized general visas and who do fall within the limit. That limit means while an upper limit of 21,700 so-called tier two workers arriving in the country will easily be met, the total number when ICTs are included will be more than 40,000 around double the target. Under the ICTs last year, a major manufacturer brought in 4,000 workers, mainly from India.
Base to the CBI director for employment, Neil Carberry, “the Nitra-company transfers enable businesses to move their own staff to the United Kingdom for a limited period of time to fulfill a particular need and they underpin a lot of investment in the United Kingdom”. The Policy Director at the BCC Adam Marshall stated that the ICTS is essential to how multinational businesses operate”. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research showed that the migrants made a positive contribution to business operations through their advanced technical knowledge and skills.
Prof Metcalf suggested riaisng the £40,000 income threshold to limit the number of ICTs. David Cameron announced the plans to restrict the transfer system under which companies can bring in overseas staff. Based on the ministers only those with the salaries of more than £40,000 could stay on a long-term basis of up to five years. However, they also decided that those earning between £24,000 and £40,000 would be allowed to come for a year, paying the way for companies to rotate one employee after another on an annual basis.
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http://world.einnews.com/article/83097655
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9111116/30000-foreign-workers-entered-UK-under-transfer-schemes.html
http://world.topnewstoday.org/uk/article/1686493/
