Sunday 9 October 2016

Ambers Rudd's proposal to disgrace foreign workers condemned by all and sundry, and tagged as worse than Trump's Islamic stand

Amber Rudd

After being lashed by captains of industry and well-meaning British citizens on the purported statement made by the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, seeking companies to forcefully name and disgrace foreign employees. The government has come out deny such moves.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd reported at the Tory party meeting that a counsel would be propelled on arrangements that will boost the livelihood of UK residents and shrinking movement in the wake of the vote to leave the EU.

Among the measures was an arrangement to urge organizations to uncover what number of foreign laborers they were utilizing, yet this incited an irate reaction from commentators, including the British Chambers of Commerce and Ms Rudd's own particular sibling.

Previous Downing Street policy boss Steve Hilton depicted the arrangement as more awful than Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump's proposal he would restrict Muslims from entering the US.

He made this known to The Sunday Times, when he said ministers might as well have announced that "foreign workers will be tattooed with numbers on their forearms".

Ex-education secretary Nicky Morgan, speaking on Sky's Murnaghan programme, agreed with Mr Hilton that the idea was "repugnant".

"I was very surprised Amber Rudd put forward that proposal because that is not the Amber Rudd I know,” she said.

"The trouble with these sort of policies is they send out a message about the party, about the way we want to approach people coming to this country."

Conversely, a Home Office representative speaking debunked the move and said it had never been the idea to publish the details of foreign workers, but simply to accumulate the numbers.

"This is not about listing foreign workers or so-called 'naming and shaming' of companies," he said.

"The proportion of international workers in a company is one of the pieces of information that companies may be asked to provide to the government.

"This information will not be published. This already happens in the US and is one of several proposals we will be consulting on as part of our work to ensure that companies take reasonable steps to recruit at home before looking to bring in workers from abroad."

Also, according to the Education Secretary Justine Greening the Government wanted to know the number of foreign workers being employed in the UK to inform policy.


"This is about informing policy so that we understand particularly which areas and parts of the country where there are skill shortages evidenced by the fact that employers are not taking local workers as much as they might do," she told ITV. 

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