U.K. Immigration Plans Would Harm Economy, Business Chiefs Say
- ‘We will not comply with such a policy,’ companies say
- CBI chief tells Times that May risks closing door to business
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U.K. government proposals to make companies list their foreign workers would harm the economy because they are “anti-business and dangerously naive,” more than 100 leaders of small and medium-sized businesses said in a letter to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
“The ability to hire both British and non-British people has historically helped business grow by bringing in varied skills and perspectives,” the company chiefs wrote in the letter published Monday. Prime Minister Theresa May “cannot claim to be open to trade while demonizing workers from other countries, nor can she claim to be pro‑enterprise when her ministers use such anti-business rhetoric.”