Economics

Heathrow to Hospitals Pay to Keep Staff in U.K. After Brexit

  • $81 cost of applying for settled status may discourage workers
  • Funding fee tells worried immigrant laborers they’re valued
A passenger aircraft lands at Heathrow airportPhotographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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U.K. employers from Heathrow airport to the London School of Economics are hoping to stave off a post-Brexit exodus of lower-level immigrant workers by covering their application fees for permission to stay on.