• More than half of employers are completely in the dark about the Government’s immigration proposals, with 58% saying they don’t know anything about the Government’s white paper on immigration. Just 7% said they knew “a lot” and 35% said that they ‘know a little’ about it. • 56% of employers said they don’t have enough information to start making decisions about their post-Brexit recruitment strategy. Just one in four (27%) are happy to make decisions based on existing information. • More than half of employers (51%) felt that the Government’s planned 12-month temporary visa was either ‘not very useful’ or ‘not useful at all’. Just 1 in 4 employers (28%) said it would be useful to them to meet their recruitment needs, falling to 22% among public sector organisations. • The Government’s immigration white paper proposes introducing a minimum salary threshold of £30,000 for recruiting most non-UK nationals from 2021. However, when asked what minimum salary threshold would enable them to meet their skills and labour needs after Brexit, the most popular employer response was a threshold of £20,000 (16% of employers), followed by £30,000 (14%) and £25,000 (12%). The research also shows that since the referendum most employers’ efforts have been focused on retaining existing EU staff, rather than planning how to respond to imminent immigration restrictions. This may go some way to explaining why relatively few organisations report they have seen ‘Brexodus’ effect in their organisation yet, as they have been able to continue to access and retain EU workers fairly easily since the EU referendum. The CIPD report makes a number of recommendations to avoid the worst-case scenarios when the UK does leave the EU. These include extending the Youth Mobility Scheme for 18-30-year-olds to cover all EU citizens, allowing individuals to come to the UK for a maximum of two years without a job offer.
It also suggests looking at specific occupations with skills shortages that can be exempted from any future salary cap.
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Travellers being urged to check passport validity for post Brexit 19 September 2019
New passport validity rules will apply for travel to most European countries in a no deal Brexit. Government is urging passport holders who may be affected to renew their passports ahead of 31 October.
You may wish to pass on the following information from the Home Office and HM Passport on to your colleagues, employees, family and friends.
The Home Office will send around one million text messages to passport holders who may need to renew their passports early.
New passport validity rules will apply for travel to most European countries in a no deal Brexit.
The text messages will encourage people to check if their passport will meet these new rules to help them with any plans for travel to Europe after 31 October.
There are two new rules that passports will need to meet to travel to most countries in Europe:
1. Travellers will need to have at least six months left on their passport 2. Any extra months on a passport over ten years may not count towards the six months needed. A passport may have extra months if the holder renewed their previous passport before it expired.
The texts will be sent to those who provided their mobile number when they applied for their current passport.
Not everyone provides a mobile number, and contact details may have changed, so even those who do not receive a message should check their passport.
It will normally take up to three weeks to renew a passport, but it may take longer if more information is needed.
The text message reminders are part of the government’s ‘Get Ready for Brexit’ campaign which includes information under two categories for: • businesses and organisations
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
cipp.org.uk
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