UK’s Sunak Looks to More Foreign Workers to Plug Shortages
- Government drawing up plans to loosen rules on construction
- Ministers want to tackle chronic shortages in labor market
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The UK government is drawing up plans to loosen immigration rules to tackle chronic shortages in the construction industry, amid concerns that encouraging Britons to go back to work won’t be enough to plug the gaps.
The Migration Advisory Committee, which advises the government on immigration, has recommended that tradespeople including carpenters, bricklayers and roofers should be added to the “shortage occupation list,” according to a person familiar with the matter.