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Recruitment and staffing articles for employers.
At Baltic Recruitment Services, we endeavour to keep employers up-to-date with the latest news, trends and changes in employment legislation, staffing and culture regarding recruiting from other countries.
You may also find our Frequently Asked Questions useful as they cover a range of topics including payment, timescales, accommodation and other information that could help UK clients looking to recruit applicants from other countries.
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Migrant Workers Pull Their Weight, Survey of Employers Shows
The influx of migrant workers into the local job market has proved a boon for the city's economy, according to the new findings of a survey carried out by a leading accountancy firm.
More than three-quarters of Exeter employers - 78 per cent - agree that East European workers are now important for the city's economy. Almost half of the city's owner-managed businesses - 47.5 per cent - say that their East European recruits are now progressing towards promotion, with almost as many - 42 per cent - seeing this as a real possibility.
Brian Payne, chief executive of Bishop Fleming, said: "It is not difficult to see the reasons for these findings.
"A third of our respondents said that their reason for recruiting East European staff was the skills shortage among the local workforce, while more than half cited the reputation of East European workers for being reliable and hard working.
"Despite national news stories suggesting that Polish and other East European workers are now beginning to return home, only 15 per cent of our respondents have noticed an out-flow, while a further 40 per cent agreed that it might be happening.
17/06/2008
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In parts of Europe, migrant workers head home
Four years after Polish graphic designer Chris Rychter headed to Britain to find work and study as a citizen of the European Union, he and his wife have returned home.
Part of a swelling tide of migration back east, they are having a house built in a suburb of the Polish capital.
"It took me just three days to find a job back in Warsaw," Rychter, 27, told Reuters. "We never saw Britain as home... We went for the adventure and to get some professional experience."
Their move highlights strong economic growth in the new EU member states and an accelerating slowdown in Britain -- but also how quickly a pragmatic younger European generation has adapted to working in the 21st-century globalised economy.
Economists now see a turnstile or pendulum effect of people moving between countries after quite short stints, in search of better conditions.
Statistics on migration within the 27-nation EU are not precise, but around half of an estimated one million people from eastern Europe who moved to Britain since 2004 have already returned home, according to a recent report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a British think-tank.
Work applications from the eight east European countries that joined the EU in 2004 were down 13 percent in the January to March period from last year, British government data show.
For many eastern European migrants, recent currency market trends favour a return, and Poland's government wants people back to help plug labour gaps that are stoking wage inflation at a time of fast rising food and fuel prices.
15/06/2008
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Business could suffer if migrants leave
SCORES of businesses across East Anglia could be forced to close if urgent action is not taken to stop migrant workers from leaving the region it has been warned.
East of England Development Agency researchers have urged landlords and local authorities to improve housing conditions for migrant workers as an incentive to keep them in the area where they contribute £360m to the local coffers annually.
It is estimated that of the 85,000 eastern European labourers who have arrived in East Anglia since 2004 around half have already returned to their home countries.
There are additional concerns that the London Olympics, which require 182,000 builders to complete construction works in the capital by 2012, will suck more foreign workers out of the region.
Richard Hirst, chairman of the NFU's horticulture board, said farming was in serious danger of losing millions of pounds this year if the issue is not addressed immediately.
He said: “The UK's soft fruit is just starting and workers have not come forward as we've expected.
“I'd be absolutely flabbergasted if we do not have crops left behind this year because people can't get enough labourers. We're trying to find evidence of crop losses this year. Last year it was bad enough. We've got evidence that several million pounds worth of crops were left behind because there were not enough people to pick them. The millions of pounds that were left behind last year will be small fry compared with the potential losses incurred this year. ”
28/05/2008
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What future for Polish workers abroad?
Poles are wanted as employees by French farmers and European elites, even in Germany, says a report by one daily newspaper. EU countries which opened their markets to Poles, are generally satisfied with the Polish workers. But in Germany, which hasn't opened the job market to Poland, and where the black job market is thriving, two-thirds of respondents would like to delay the opening.
In German society, which is generally most worried about losing their jobs, the fear of Polish immigration is most prevalent among the unemployed and poorly educated people, and among residents of the former Eastern Germany.
This is according to the social research by OBOP polling center, commissioned by one Polish daily newspaper.
But other than that, Poles are generally welcome as workers all over Europe, but especially in those places, where they are already working legally. And it gradually becomes just a stereotype, that Polish people are employed only in low-skilled jobs, says Agata Piątek, head hunter of a Polish recruitment company: 'From what I can see, when we first joined the EU, we proved that Polish people are hard-working and that they are also very good professionals. So, right now, I think we can see Polish people working in the London City, in banks and accounting jobs there's plenty of them, but also physical workers in many other countries, like Spain, or Germany.'
The French are most enthusiastic about opening their job market to Poles. Especially farmers are in favor, counting on cheap work force. At the same time, low-skilled workers are mostly against Polish immigrant employees, in fear of competition.
The Brits are generally happy with Poles, whom they see as hard working, intelligent and responsible.
The same holds for Ireland, says this Catholic chaplain for immigrants from Dublin: 'The Polish people do very well, because they have a strong reputation in Ireland now of being very hard workers, good workers, very talented and very keen. Many of them are very young, enthusiastic and boy, do they work hard... so, they are well received.'
28/05/2008
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