New CIPD research exploring how UK employers have adapted to the point-based immigration system after Brexit shows it works adequately for most employers that have hired high-skilled migrant workers since January 2021. However, two years on just 15 per cent of employers have used the system to sponsor migrant workers, despite six in 10 (57 per cent) employers having hard-to-fill vacancies. The report also suggests that restrictions on employers’ ability to hire migrant workers aren’t incentivising enough employers to invest more in the recruitment and training of UK workers as intended.
Post-Brexit restrictions on hiring migrant workers have not led to employers investing more in the recruitment and training of UK workers for low-skilled jobs.
The UK’s points-based immigration, which came into effect on January 2021, is not incentivising enough employers to invest more in the recruitment and training of UK workers as intended, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and YouGov.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has suggested the office should be the “default” for workers as he’s concerned about the creativity lost in permanent remote work.