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Up-to-date News
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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Employers and unions want migrants Workers Registration Scheme scrapped
The Workers Registration Scheme (WRS) should be scrapped, according to an alliance of employers, unions and migrant groups.
The TUC, the Association of Labour Providers, the National Farmers Union (NFU) and the Federation of Poles in Great Britain have called on home secretary Jacqui Smith to end the scheme.
It was introduced in May 2004 to prevent benefit tourism and to measure the number of workers migrating from the new European Union member states of Eastern Europe.
But the alliance of employers, unions and others claim the scheme has outlived its usefulness and now produces inadequate statistics at great cost to migrant workers and inconvenience to both them and their employers.
The TUC-backed Commission on Vulnerable Employment, which reported earlier this month, has already called for its abolition.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "The Worker Registration Scheme is no longer necessary, effective or fair. It costs £90 to register - which is two days wages for someone on the minimum wage - and National Insurance numbers would provide much better information about where migrants are working."
21/05/2008
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£200million to train British workers to have skills like Poles
Ministers will today launch a £200million project to create an "army" of British workers with the same skills as eastern Europeans.
It will pay for specialist training colleges supplying staff for the construction, IT, science and engineering industries.
The move comes amid warnings the UK faces a shortage of 600,000 skilled building workers, 500,000 IT staff and more than 300,000 trained in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Skills Secretary John Denham also warned firms could not rely for ever on Polish and other eastern Europeans plugging the skills gap.
He said: "Eastern European migrants have filled shortages but, in the longer term, this is not something we want to rely on. People can go as quickly as they come."
19/05/2008
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City could find itself short of Polish skills
Increasing incentives for Polish workers to leave Derry and find jobs elsewhere could spell problems for the city, says the head of a local multi-cultural organisation.
Eddie Kerr, director of SEEDS, said: “I have just returned from a trip to Poland and more and more Polish workers are returning home from the UK and Ireland.
“The reasons for this are the fall in the value of the pound, the increasing volume of work available in Poland and the increase in value of Polish wages.”
02/05/2008
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6,000 migrants have arrived in North Wales in the three years
AT least 6,000 Eastern European immigrant workers have arrived in North Wales in the last three years.
A study found 6,835 people from the ‘so-called’ A8 countries including the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, are now living in North Wales.
The government expected 13,000 migrants to arrive in Britain per year, however, the true figure is nearer 800,000.
But the study’s authors at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said 40% of ‘A8’ workers are now returning to their homelands.
Industry leaders last night said the loss of the extra workers would be noticed among businesses and recruiters across North Wales.
02/05/2008
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