The Migration Advisory Committee’s annual report supplies a complete reflection on the influence of the ban on folks working whereas they await a call on their asylum declare, in addition to different shortfalls within the immigration system. The report confirms quite a few ways in which immigration and asylum coverage pushes folks into exploitative conditions.
Recommendations made by the Committee over the previous yr to assist keep away from exploitation embody:
- Ensuring migrants can change employers
- Ensuring live-in migrants within the social care system are sponsored by an umbrella physique somewhat than by people
- Recommendations on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
- Access to employment for asylum seekers
The report goes into element on the seasonal employee scheme, present vacancies and wages, and automation in some sectors, all of which must be thought of in future immigration coverage plans. It means that the federal government shouldn’t get too hung up on the current rise in web migration, to round 500,000:
“This is the best determine since information started however follows 2 years wherein web migration was decrease than in recent times. This rise in the latest 12 months is for a number of causes, together with the brand new Hong Kong British National (Overseas) (BNO) route and Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, a rebound in employee visas from the pandemic, an increase within the variety of college students and their dependants, and the NHS’s use of the SW route. It is unlikely that web…
