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Old February 25th, 2017 #1
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Post Brexit: UK businesses are already facing recruitment crisis as Polish workers head home - Many industries are already struggling to find staff in a worrying sign of what might be t

More than 100,000 EU citizens left Britain in the three months after the EU referendum, new figures showed this week.

New worker registrations from Poland are down 16 per cent year on year, Hungary down 14 per cent, and Slovakia down 20 per cent.

After a Brexit vote in which a primary concern was too much immigration, some might be applauding the trend, but for important UK industries it is already creating a serious problem, and one that provides a preview of what may be to come for the wider economy.

While more people are still arriving than leaving, businesses worry the numbers will not be enough to fill vacancies.

The UK’s growing hospitality sector should be a Brexit winner. A record 37 million tourists visited in 2016 as the pound plunged. But many hotels, restaurants and bars are already finding it tough to recruit the EU nationals that make up a large proportion of the industry’s 4.9 million workers.

While the weakened pound means a juicy discount for wealthy American or Chinese visitors dining at the Ritz or stocking up on designer brands in West End boutiques, it also hands a 15 per cent pay cut to the largely foreign workers that tend to those tourists’ needs.

The Government’s lack of clarity on the future of EU migrants in the UK is also damaging, says Ufi Ibrahim, chief executive of the British Hospitality Association.

“People don’t want to pack up their lives and move to the UK if they could end up having to go back again very soon.” Ibrahim says. It’s not only waiters and bartenders who are put off. Even top chefs are turning down jobs in London, Ibrahim says.

“Then there is that sense of being unwelcom”, something which has been fuelled by damaging statements from government ministers, she adds.

Millions of pound of taxpayers' money spent on efforts to encourage people to come to the UK through organisations like Visit Britain and the British Council will “all be flushed away” if ministers don’t adopt a welcoming tone towards migrant workers, Ibrahim says.

Further down the food supply chain, agriculture has an even more acute problem. John Hardman runs Hops Labour Solutions, which recruits around 12,000 of the country’s 85,000 seasonal farm workers, almost all of whom are from Eastern Europe, primarily Romania and Bulgaria.

In 14 years in the business he says that he had never had a problem finding willing hands, but in the July to September following the referendum the flow of migrants from Eastern Europe into the fields of East Anglia, Kent and the Midlands slowed, leaving him with 400 positions left unfilled.

This was in the summer season and problems are worse in winter. The devalued pound has made the prospect of “picking Brussels sprouts at minus 4 degrees in December with a sideways wind” even less attractive than it was before, he says.

“There’s only so sexy you can make that job. The same applies to hacking meat in an abattoir for 40 hours a week.”

Hardman believes the shortfall is increasing. So far in

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Old February 25th, 2017 #2
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Why is this in the Nutzpah Lounge and not the UK section?
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Old February 25th, 2017 #3
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Probably because the article is taking an anti-Brexit tone while pushing the woe is me, captain capitalist can no longer find cheap labor to do these jobs. It's arguing the cuckservative angle.

They push the same kind of bullshit here in the USA about American citizens not wanting these jobs, but they fail to mention that a lot of these jobs are low wage due to too much labor being in the market.
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