Article 3Z0T5 UK employers condemn 'ignorant, elitist' Brexit immigration report

UK employers condemn 'ignorant, elitist' Brexit immigration report

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Dan Sabbagh and Lisa O'Carroll
from World news | The Guardian on (#3Z0T5)

Business leaders reject need for income threshold, saying workers are needed at all levels

Business leaders have lined up to criticise the government's migration advisory committee (MAC) after it proposed an "ignorant and elitist" ban on foreign workers earning less than 30,000 a year from obtaining visas to work in the UK after Brexit.

Organisations representing hauliers, housebuilders and the hospitality sector were among those to sound the alarm after the committee said only "higher skilled" workers should be allowed visas, with no preferential access given to European Union citizens.

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