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A third of construction firms employ migrant workers, finds survey

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  1. Stop blaming everything on Brexit – the reason there is a skills shortage is because of lack of investment in training in the past (decades before the referendum) and the fact that the construction industry is used as a political football (by both major parties) all of the time.
    Profits have always been put before training needs – the only time we hear about the skills shortage is when those at the top find their profits/bonuses dropping and they have to pay more for labour costs due to a shortage of skilled workers. They then have to pay agencies premiums to find the labour.
    Make the construction industry attractive to home grown youngsters and you wont have to import as many skilled foreign workers (oh!, but that would be mean spending money on training and take money out of profits and bonuses wouldn’t it?).
    Stop using the construction workers as casual labour and perhaps you might get youngsters interested in taking up trades.

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