UK employers fear worker shortages in new immigration plan [View all]

[True Blue Drew]

Source: Associated Press

By JILL LAWLESS
an hour ago

LONDON (AP) — Vegetables rotting in the fields, food going unprocessed, the elderly and disabled left without care.

That’s the alarming picture painted by some British employers about the impact of new U.K. immigration rules set to be introduced in less than a year.

Farms, food factories and care homes said Wednesday that they will face severe labor shortages under the government’s plans to open Britain to skilled and educated immigrants while shutting out those its deems “low-skilled” workers.

The message from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government was blunt: “Employers will need to adjust.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/f3a13e26b8eba124f8fb4afc40969641

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Is this report suggesting that a country imposing major restrictions on immigration might actually be harming some of its own citizens? Shocking!