Comments for Migrant InfoSource http://newmigrant.wordpress.com www.migrantinfosource.org.uk Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:51:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Worker Registration Scheme extended for 2 years by migrantinfo http://newmigrant.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/worker-registration-scheme-extended-for-2-years/#comment-649 migrantinfo Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:51:50 +0000 http://newmigrant.wordpress.com/?p=790#comment-649 The Association of Labour Providers (ALP) has urged government to rethink its last-minute decision to preserve the Worker Registration Scheme, under which workers from eight EU members have to pay a £90 fee when they start work in the UK. In a letter to the Home Secretary, the chairman of the ALP, Mark Boleat, said: “This last minute decision, without proper consultation with affected parties, will cause practical difficulties for businesses, which have been entitled to assume that the scheme ends automatically on 30 April. “The government believes that it can extend the scheme because there is ‘serious disturbance’ in the labour market. However, the scheme itself is not the cause of serious disturbance. The Migration Advisory Committee in its report accepted this: ‘the evidence reviewed does not indicate that any substantial negative labour market impacts are likely to result from removing the WRS.’ “These are very flimsy grounds for maintaining a scheme that costs low-paid workers £90 just to register and cost employers millions of pounds a year to administer. All that the scheme does is to encourage some workers to operate in the flourishing informal economy.” Boleat added that ALP had also protested about the continual failure of the Home Office to consult on the scheme and has requested an urgent meeting with the Home Secretary to discuss these issues. It will also be urging MPs to reject the statutory instrument that seeks to extend the scheme and asking the European Commission to investigate the legality of the decision. The Association of Labour Providers (ALP) has urged government to rethink its last-minute decision to preserve the Worker Registration Scheme, under which workers from eight EU members have to pay a £90 fee when they start work in the UK.

In a letter to the Home Secretary, the chairman of the ALP, Mark Boleat, said: “This last minute decision, without proper consultation with affected parties, will cause practical difficulties for businesses, which have been entitled to assume that the scheme ends automatically on 30 April.

“The government believes that it can extend the scheme because there is ‘serious disturbance’ in the labour market. However, the scheme itself is not the cause of serious disturbance. The Migration Advisory Committee in its report accepted this: ‘the evidence reviewed does not indicate that any substantial negative labour market impacts are likely to result from removing the WRS.’

“These are very flimsy grounds for maintaining a scheme that costs low-paid workers £90 just to register and cost employers millions of pounds a year to administer. All that the scheme does is to encourage some workers to operate in the flourishing informal economy.”

Boleat added that ALP had also protested about the continual failure of the Home Office to consult on the scheme and has requested an urgent meeting with the Home Secretary to discuss these issues. It will also be urging MPs to reject the statutory instrument that seeks to extend the scheme and asking the European Commission to investigate the legality of the decision.

]]> Comment on Worker Registration Scheme extended for 2 years by migrantinfo http://newmigrant.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/worker-registration-scheme-extended-for-2-years/#comment-648 migrantinfo Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:42:40 +0000 http://newmigrant.wordpress.com/?p=790#comment-648 Keeping Worker Registration Scheme is perplexing, says TUC Commenting on the Government's decision to keep the Workers Registration Scheme for a further two years, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: 'This scheme was never designed to limit the number of workers from the A8 group of countries coming to the UK. Keeping it will make no difference to their numbers. The decision to prolong it is therefore perplexing as it serves no real purpose. 'But if A8 workers do not register they are denied all employment rights, leaving them open to abuse by unscrupulous employers. This in turn threatens the pay and conditions of other workers. 'It would have been more sensible to allow this unhelpful scheme to expire. source: http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-16264-f0.cfm Keeping Worker Registration Scheme is perplexing, says TUC

Commenting on the Government’s decision to keep the Workers Registration Scheme for a further two years, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

‘This scheme was never designed to limit the number of workers from the A8 group of countries coming to the UK. Keeping it will make no difference to their numbers. The decision to prolong it is therefore perplexing as it serves no real purpose.

‘But if A8 workers do not register they are denied all employment rights, leaving them open to abuse by unscrupulous employers. This in turn threatens the pay and conditions of other workers.

‘It would have been more sensible to allow this unhelpful scheme to expire.

source: http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-16264-f0.cfm

]]> Comment on Global outcry against EU immigration directive by stan squires http://newmigrant.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/global-outcry-against-eu-immigration-directive/#comment-68 stan squires Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:05:51 +0000 http://newmigrant.wordpress.com/?p=191#comment-68 I am from vancouver,canada and i wanted to make a comment on the immigration law,returns directive.This law should be condemned across europe.It would encourage attacks on immigrants and cause big problems in the countries where the immigrants are from.There are enough problems in europe now for immigrants without this law. Until living conditions improves in third world countries there will always be immigrants comming to europe.Aid should be given to third world countries without conditions attached to it.The foreign debt of these countries should be cancelled.Then these countries will be able to help their own citizens improve their lives. Stan Squires I am from vancouver,canada and i wanted to make a comment on the immigration law,returns directive.This law should be condemned across europe.It would encourage attacks on immigrants and cause big problems in the countries where the immigrants are from.There are enough problems in europe now for immigrants without this law.
Until living conditions improves in third world countries there will always be immigrants comming to europe.Aid should be given to third world countries without conditions attached to it.The foreign debt of these countries should be cancelled.Then these countries will be able to help their own citizens improve their lives.

Stan Squires

]]> Comment on Tighter new rules for skilled foreign workers by ASA Globalog :: A criminal confusion http://newmigrant.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/tighter-new-rules-for-skilled-foreign-workers/#comment-43 ASA Globalog :: A criminal confusion Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:22:29 +0000 http://newmigrant.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-43 [...] and newcomers get sifted through an ever-finer sieve – through pre-embarkation controls, the points-based system and British residency and citizenship tests – even some of ‘us’, the ‘legitimate’ face of [...] [...] and newcomers get sifted through an ever-finer sieve – through pre-embarkation controls, the points-based system and British residency and citizenship tests – even some of ‘us’, the ‘legitimate’ face of [...]

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