Cameron Immigration Crackdown Leaves Firms Desperate for Workers
- Acal CEO says limits made it tough to find skilled engineers
- Industry pushes for looser rules as U.K. `Brexit' vote looms
The rise constituted a “statistically significant increase” from the year ending March 2014, when a net 236,000 arrived in the U.K., the ONS said Thursday.
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Nick Jefferies can’t find enough engineers.
The 50-year-old chief executive officer of Acal Plc spent “months of trawling, months and months and months," to fill 40 positions he badly needed to continue morphing the former British logistics firm into a provider of advanced design to defense, aerospace and energy companies. That task was made harder by ever-tighter U.K. immigration laws that make it too difficult and expensive to hire personnel from outside Europe, he said.