Brexit Boost: Hiring and Salaries Rise as Supply of Cheap Foreign Workers Falls
by Jack Montgomery As the supply of low-wage labour from the European Union dwindles, Scotland has experienced a “steep increase” in permanent and temporary job hires, with salary growth reaching a 10-month high at the beginning of the third quarter. Brexit campaigners have long argued that unscrupulous employers have been the only real beneficiaries of Free Movement and mass immigration, and that a better-controlled system would see pay and working conditions improve. The Brussels-based New Europe newspaper acknowledges that the new data in the HIS Markit Report on Jobs is “positive”, but claims it is “overshadowed by reports that...
by Jack Montgomery As the supply of low-wage labour from the European Union dwindles, Scotland has experienced a “steep increase” in permanent and temporary job hires, with salary growth reaching a 10-month high at the beginning of the third...
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