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Brexit and your role - what are your burning questions?

Steve Bridger

With Brexit now looming, we’re putting together a comprehensive set of FAQs with (we hope) some useful pointers for people professionals.

With this in mind, what are the burning questions you need answered?

For example... pondering over what the new immigration system might mean for recruiting EU citizens... or wondering if you should change any policies before the end of this month?

Let us know what you are thinking and we will do our best to address your concerns and answer your questions.

In the meantime... have you visited our Brexit Hub?

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    In particular, look out for the new Brexit FAQs and the people arrangements grid.

  • in reply to Derek Tong
    Hi Steve
    My concern is being able to continue to recruit people from the EU. There has been a lot of talk about "talent", minimum salary levels etc, but what if you don't want "talent"? What if the majority of your employees have for some years come from the EU and you worry where they will come from if you are no longer able to recruit them because of a salary threshold?

    For context, this is manufacturing, but I know other sectors recruit EU colleagues so may have similar concerns.

    Thanks, Annabel
  • in reply to Annabel
    Annabel, you raise an excellent question concerning (presumably) unskilled, low-cost labour, which I think in terms of answers has been swept under the carpet for too long by the powers at be......
    If you cannot demonstrate a specific skill need, then I suspect that your answer will have to take the form of offering an improved package that local labour is willing to accept.....
    I'm very interested to see how this one pans out and feel for you !
  • in reply to Annabel
    I'm in exactly the same position Annabel. At least 90% of my employees are from the EU. We recruit mainly unskilled labour and train and develop them. All of my now semi-skilled staff and operational management team have been developed from within and 'started at the bottom'. I'm in food manufacturing and its a massive concern. We are trying to invest in more machinery (where we can) which will remove some head count however we still rely on a large number of unskilled and semi skilled labour. A points based immigration system will just not work for our industry.
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  • in reply to Annabel
    I'm in exactly the same position Annabel. At least 90% of my employees are from the EU. We recruit mainly unskilled labour and train and develop them. All of my now semi-skilled staff and operational management team have been developed from within and 'started at the bottom'. I'm in food manufacturing and its a massive concern. We are trying to invest in more machinery (where we can) which will remove some head count however we still rely on a large number of unskilled and semi skilled labour. A points based immigration system will just not work for our industry.
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