Articles involving: Immigration
28 Jun, 2024
Nick Allen outlines BMPA’s asks from next government
Food Security, Immigration,
We hear it from most quarters of the food industry in Britain: government has stopped listening to and engaging with companies operating in the strategically important…
03 Jun, 2024
GMB Union boss and CBI boss make strange bedfellows on immigration
Immigration, Recruitment,
"The truth is we need migrant workers in our economy." Not something you'd expect to hear from the boss of one of the UK's biggest unions,…
16 May, 2024
Vets join call for skilled worker visa re-think
Immigration, Recruitment,
Since it was announced in last year, we've been warning that the Government's new £38,700 minimum salary requirement for skilled worker visas will cause major problems…
10 May, 2024
Government response to labour shortages disappoints
Immigration, Recruitment,
The Government has responded to John Shropshire's Independent Review into Labour Shortages in the Food Supply Chain. While some measures like regional recruitment strategies are to be applauded,…
16 Apr, 2024
Could this new EU proposal on free movement solve our labour shortage?
EU, Immigration, Recruitment,
This week saw the EU propose opening negotiations with the UK to allow 18–30-year-olds free movement for up to four years. Such movement would not restrict…
13 Mar, 2024
Meat Industry CEOs’ plea to government over damaging new immigration rule
Immigration,
With the new one-size-fits-all £38,700 immigration rule about to be implemented, there's a sense of desperation amongst the biggest UK meat companies that represent over £8bn…
24 Feb, 2024
Meat industry sounds alarm on government’s anti-growth migration rule
Immigration,
Nick Allen, Chief Executive of the British Meat Processors Association has written to the Home Secretary James Cleverly to outline the damage to the UK meat…
12 Feb, 2024
Government’s anti-growth migration rule will stoke food inflation
Immigration,
With the new one-size-fits-all £38,700 immigration rule only seven weeks away, there's growing panic amongst companies across the whole UK economy that it will strangle growth and stoke…
05 Dec, 2023
Blanket immigration rules will exacerbate labour shortage and stoke inflation
Immigration,
Just like George Eustice, the British Meat Processors Association is concerned that the Government's new immigration rules will restrict access for migrants to fill critical labour…
31 Jul, 2023
Sainsbury’s boss is right to call for pragmatic immigration to stem food inflation
Immigration,
Calls by the Chief Executive of Sainsbury’s in today’s Times for the government to review the Shortage Occupation List echo what The British Meat Processors Association has…
14 Jul, 2023
Rise in migrant visa fees will stoke inflation
Immigration,
Only three days after our first press release warning that the cost of recruiting badly-needed overseas workers is stoking food price inflation, the government has made matters a whole…
13 Jul, 2023
Overseas labour is NOT the cheap option
Immigration,
UK meat companies are having to pay between £10- £15k per person in extra costs to recruit the workers they need from abroad. That’s already a…