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Balfour Beatty calls for easier access to foreign workers

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  1. Fear of too many foreign workers coming to the UK was a major driver of the Brexit vote. Therefore it seems contradictory for various industries to ask the Government to make it easier for foreign workers to come to the UK. The Government has made immigration a ‘red line’ in its EU negotiations. If it stays true to these should rebut industry calls for more foreign workers.

    Companies need to lift wages and other benefits to attract more UK workers. If this fails at least the jobs may then be in the 30,000 plus bracket needed for a visa application. Of course, this may make some industries uncompetitive, but then you cannot have it all ways.

    (BTW this comment is not intended as a Brexit political statement, more an observation on the consequences of Brexit).

  2. The real problem is that the top management is a key problem for the British Construction Industry due to its poor ability to get up to speed with the modern world. The Industry has gone from a World leader in the 1950s to an almost “has been”. Compared with North America the United Kingdom is almost in the dark ages.

  3. Balfour Beatty has called on the government to make it easier for construction firms to recruit lower-paid workers. What! I agree with Paul Akhurst

  4. If the industry is worried about – “The serious skills shortage our industry is currently experiencing is putting the delivery of critical infrastructure schemes at risk; driving increased wage costs and project delays”, – pay the bosses at the top less – this may help to pay the increase in labour costs for those at the bottom ( it may mean the ones at the top can’t afford second/third homes and some luxury items, but it may help the WORKERS to have a living wage and perhaps to afford to get a mortgage.

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