I assume that’s where the compromise lies Sunder

It was my fast stream question 25 years ago

Thank you Stefan. I’d had no luck finding it

Where could I find this report please Stefan?

Good stag do though?

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Hillsborough law?

I spoke to the FT about how the uK’s work permit system can already cost employers more than President Trump’s $100k H1B fee and how earned settlement will substantially increase those costs

When I meet officials and ministers from other countries I tell them that cost aside we have about the best ran work permit system in the world

And HMRC often tax the £525 CoS fee and £1,000 per year skills charge at the same rate, so it really rockets. (Ps they shouldn’t be taxing those fees, in my view)

This is interesting Ben, thank you. One think you understandably missed because almost everyone does:

Many employers and most multinationals pay these fees for employees. HMRC then tax the fees as a benefit so the cost rises by an additional 60% to 118%, or up to an extra 131% in Scotland.

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And is Sarah jones the replacement?

Am I reading it right and Tool Makers is one of the jobs being removed?

Here is the statement of changes www.gov.uk/government/p...

The obvious Bertrand Russell and Sophie’s world for philosophy and I wonder whether a view from the foothills would be different and interesting

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I suspect that in most areas of law the use of AI is about improving the processes that employees and clients follow rather than removing people from those processes. Clients still need and expect a human service, so this is about reducing cost in the areas that don’t need to be done by a person

Thank you Alison. I’ve been thinking about this a lot this week

Such an odd position to take when it will cause all sorts of problems and then definitely fail at judicial review and

It would basically take us back, in part, to the old days of work permit. They were slow, uncertain and expensive for the home office to consider. It would be a real shame if that is what is happening here, but we’ll find out more tomorrow

And I can’t see us carrying on as one of the fastest decision makers in the world. It will take weeks longer to compile applications, probably weeks longer to decide them. Could be backlogs etc.

It would no longer be objective, no longer provide the certainty that employers need. Maybe you can sponsor maybe not, we’ll tell you when we’ve decided.

Or, individual employers will need to provide a justification every time they try and sponsor someone. That could be very messy and undermine what currently makes the UK’s work permit system the best in the world.

That will make things harder but is familiar and can work.

There are two ways to read this: industries could do work up front to get vacancies onto a shortage list. They’d be showing that the jobs are skilled, in shortage and it is sensible to fill them with overseas workers. That is a recasting of what we’ve had since the PBS was introduced in 2008.

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The first official statement on the immigration white paper. Work visas will be restricted to degree level jobs, but there will be some access to lower skilled jobs where there is strong evidence of shortages and an industry plan to train and hire more British workers.

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Thank uou

Where did you find this please Jonathan? I haven’t seen anything on the mobility/ mode 4 provisions

The shame of this is that the UK has about the best work permit system in the world. One of the fastest, the most objective so employers have actual certainty, light on supporting paperwork, completely digital, sensible consistent decisions. It is just very overpriced compared to everywhere else