Re: Unemployment Worst Ever
Originally Posted by
OldFogey
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Covid-19 will cop for a lot of the blame for economic damage that Brexit would have caused anyway.
The pandemic has just compounded it.
A man-made error made worse by a natural disaster.
You think so?
Confirming there would be no special treatment for carers coming from the EU or the rest of the world, the government said it hoped
Britons would fill a shortfall of around 120,000 workers, equating to 10% of all posts. Currently 17% of care jobs are filled by foreign citizens.
Care home staff have been excluded from a post-Brexit fast-track visa system for health workers, in a move that critics say could prove “an unmitigated disaster” and may increase the risk of spreading coronavirus.
During Home Office questions in the Commons, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary, asked his opposite number, Priti Patel: “What does the government have against care workers?”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ary-thresholds