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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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Farmers alarmed over limits on migrant workers
The UK Government is to be asked to review restrictions on immigrant agricultural workers that could leave hundreds of tonnes of fruit and vegetables unpicked on Scottish farms this summer.
Rural Affairs Cabinet Secretary Richard Lochhead is to write to UK Citizenship and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne to raise concerns about the decision to allow only 16,250 Bulgarians and Romanians into Britain through the seasonal agricultural workers scheme this year.
It had previously offered places for up to 25,000 for young people from across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union states.
The change has alarmed farmers, many of whom are already facing problems finding sufficient staff to harvest their crops. News of Mr Lochhead’s letter to the UK Government came in response to a question from SNP MSP Aileen Campbell in which she raised the concerns of farmers. The agricultural industry is already raising evidence to show the UK Government the difficulties its decision will cause.
27/05/2008
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The £100-a-day job that local workers won't do
IT'S the £100 a day job that unemployed Scots don't want.
A Lothian farmer today revealed that he has to rely on migrant workers because not even jobless people in the area want to try their hand at fruit picking.
But far from it being a tiresome job with little reward, workers at the farm who regularly average up to £100-a-day say they can't believe local people don't want to do the job.
It is just one of many industries across the Lothians which now rely almost exclusively on migrant workers, despite figures showing that there are more than 11,000 people officially classed as unemployed in the Capital alone.
26/05/2008
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Tracking changing migration trends
A report by MPs has concluded that new ways of monitoring migration should be established as a priority.
Political clashes over recent migration trends show how numbers have become central to debating what the UK is - and what it may become.
A critical report from the Commons Treasury Committee points clearly to problems that have been raised time and again.
Reliable facts about the population are vital for a modern nation because those numbers dictate everything from how much tax can be raised to how it will ultimately be spent.
An apparent lack of hard facts about migration has town halls worried.
They say that unless the government can properly count people, local services will not get the right amount of money to serve them.
Many areas acknowledge they have gained economically from migration. But they also worry that the public spending needed to cope with a changing population, such as specialist language teaching in schools, hasn't been following.
24/05/2008
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Corby is top town for EU Migrants
More than 2,300 migrant EU citizens have applied to work in Corby in the past three years.
And nearly 2,000 Europeans have come to work in Wellingborough in the same period, according to a new survey.
The figures place Corby as having the 13th highest percentage of its workers from so-called A8 countries, with Wellingborough the 41st most popular local authority area for foreign workers.
The Institute for Public Policy Research report measures migration to the UK from A8 countries – the eight poorest countries which joined the EU in 2004. They include the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia.
Its figures show the number of people who applied for the workers' registration scheme, to which all A8 workers must be signed up before they can be employed.
Corby has 28 EU workers per 1,000 residents and Wellingborough has 16 per 1,000 people.
"I think employers in Corby have benefited from immigration because workers from the EU are real grafters. They are prepared to work very hard.
"They do tend to fill the gaps for employers that British workers can't fill."
The survey estimates there are 665,000 EU workers in the UK, an increase of about 550,000 since early 2004.
23/05/2008
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