Home secretary Amber Rudd says she will “flush out” employers who fail to recruit locally, as she defended her speech to the Conservative conference in which she called on business to employ fewer foreigners.
“We set policy to encourage businesses, obviously to make a profit and be successful, but also to have a responsibility to local employment, ” she told the BBC Today Programme.
“We’re asking them to join us on this journey, so they don’t automatically go abroad, where its cheaper perhaps and sometimes they feel, more efficient. I want them to work more locally.”
Ms Rudd’s conference speech has been criticised by business groups. Adam Marshall of the Chambers of Commerce said “a lot of businesses would be saddened if they felt that having a global workforce was somehow seen as a badge of shame.”
She said her suggestion that companies publish a record of how many foreigners they employ was “one of the things we’re going to look at”. But she added: “It’s not something we’re definitely going to do. It’s one of the tools we’re going to use in the review to see if we can use it as a way of nudging people to do better behaviour.”
Appalling xenophobia from uk's government lately.
I don’t recall the Irish faring too well in the UK in the pre-EU days, and i don’t expect them to fare too well in the post EU days either. It’s sad.
I’d also point out however that 125,000 British live and work in this country. And millions of Brits live on the continent. So they’re not doing themselves any favours with their jingoistic nonsense!
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