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"This information will not be published.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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