Aspects of the new points-based immigration system will enable more businesses to hire the people and skills from overseas needed to grow.
26 Feb 2020, 2 min read
The government has announced design of the new immigration system. Following three years of campaigning, it includes several key features the CBI has called for. These include:
- Lowering the minimum salary threshold down from £30,000
- Greater flexibility on salary thresholds for roles facing shortages
- Removing the cap on skilled workers and scrapping the 28 day ‘resident labour market test’
- Commitment to introduce a separate, unsponsored points-based route for migrants without a job offer.
All these features are a marked improvement on the current non-EU immigration system and will make it easier to hire migrant workers via the skilled worker visa route.
But despite these improvements, the new system will not meet the needs of some key sectors of the UK economy
Whilst welcoming these positive changes, governments plans will still pose a challenge for sectors requiring access to labour to fill vacancies and sectors with freelance roles.
No temporary visa route means the CBI still has concerns abou
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