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Deadline for EU citizens in UK approaches + UK employers face coming labour shortages

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Hundreds of EU citizens reach out to charities every day with concerns about their status in the UK
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-01/hund...ews-learns

EXCERPTS: With Brexit marking the end of freedom of movement, EU citizens who live in the UK will now have to apply for settled status to stay. The deadline to fill out this online application is June 30 but many are unaware that they need to.

[...] The government will, as of today, be launching a new advertisement campaign to ensure that everyone who needs to apply is aware of it. 

[...] “Every day, thousands of people are being granted status under the hugely successful EU Settlement Scheme," Future Borders and Immigration Minister Kevin Foster said. "So with just 30 days until the application deadline, I urge people who are eligible to apply as soon as possible, secure the rights they deserve in UK law and join the 4.9 million people who have already been granted status."

“The Government is committed to making sure everybody eligible for the scheme can apply, including those who are the most vulnerable or need extra support. We have made available up to £22 million in funding through to 30 September 2021 for a network of now 72 organisations across the UK.” (MORE - details)


Employers must come to terms with the UK’s growing labour shortage
https://reaction.life/employers-must-com...-shortage/

EXCERPTS: They may not think so but in recent years British employers have had a relatively easy life.

The combination of Thatcherite labour market deregulation, globalisation, migration and a huge increase in the number of older people working has meant that compared with their predecessors in the 1960s or 1970s, and indeed compared with their counterparts in continental Europe, it has been surprisingly easy for employers to find the staff they need. And employees, knowing that they could be easily replaced, have been cooperative with their managers and shown considerable flexibility in the working conditions that they have accepted.

And employers have responded by creating jobs [...] But the combination of a number of factors means that it is highly unlikely that there will be an increase in the labour supply on anything like this scale in the coming years.

The major causes are of course Brexit and Covid. Post-Brexit, free movement of labour for EU migrants has ended and although there might be an increase in non-EU migration (actually a larger source of migrant labour than the EU), it seems likely that in future years there will be fewer new migrants. Meanwhile, older workers have been hit badly by Covid, with employment levels dropping by twice as much as the average, while older workers who lose their jobs typically take much longer to find a new one and have to accept larger falls in pay when they do.

Meanwhile, the skill requirements of an increasingly digital labour force mean that employers will increasingly want to employ younger workers. At the same time, many older workers will not wish to return to the labour force after furlough ends. According to the IFS, 6 per cent of the 66 to 70 year-olds who were working before Covid and 11 per cent of those aged 71+ have retired, of whom about half had not intended to do so. Expect this figure to rise when furlough ends.

So we expect employers to have to face an increasing shortage of workers and particularly those with digital skills as migration slows down and the boost to the economy from increasing numbers of older workers ends and is possibly reversed. A shift in the balance of power to employers that lasted two generations is now reversing... (MORE - details)
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