Conservative Party Conference - highlights for jobseekers
Tories want ‘best’ migrants in UK
Shadow Minister for Immigration, Damian Green, has identified the Australian immigration system as the one he wants the UK system to most closely resemble. He has said that the Conservative party would keep the government’s points based migration system, but place an overall annual limit on numbers, in an attempt to cut low skilled migration but push for more highly qualified migrants to come to the UK.
He said Britain was a global trading nation and it was vital for future prosperity to attract more entrepreneurs and highly qualified graduates to the UK than to rival economies such as Japan or the US. But he also said it was important to control immigration by imposing an overall cap on numbers in order to ease pressure on public services and ease social tensions.
“We want to attract more than our fair share of the brightest and the best,” he said.
Jonathan Djanogly on the Agency Workers Directive
Jonathan Djanogly, speaking at the Conservative Party Conference this week outlined his stance on the Agency Workers Directive:
“I can announce today that we’re starting a campaign against the early implementation of the Agency Workers Directive. This Directive is going to cost British business some £40 billion over the next ten years and lead to tens of thousands of unemployed. We should not be destroying jobs as Labour wants to destroy these jobs, we should want to be creating jobs, which is why we will be opposing the implementation of this Directive early.”
Clarke pledges to cut regulation
Ken Clarke has pledged to put a “star chamber” cabinet committee to cut red tape at the heart of a wide-ranging Conservative plan to reduce the regulatory burden on business. Chaired by Mr Clarke, the star chamber would enforce a “one in, one out” requirement whereby any new law must include cuts in old laws which, together, produced a net 5 per cent reduction in the regulatory burden. The public would be able to nominate the most poorly designed and burdensome regulations, which would be repealed within 12 months unless modified or approved by parliament.
Mr Clarke said under a Conservative government all regulators and regulatory quangos would be reassessed and their duties reviewed during the first term.
Article Source: APSCo Newsletter w/c 5 October 2009
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