Migrant IT workers 'deprives Britons of jobs’

[larry]

Tens of thousands of foreign IT workers are being sent to work for their companies’ subsidiaries in Britain, sparking fears that British workers are being denied job opportunities.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6975922.ece

[VladimirPutin]

free world

London is one of the fin capital of the world so what is wrong in few foreigners working in UK ?

There will probably never be a full account of the robbery UK organised, but there are a few snapshots. In his book Capitalism and Colonial Production, Hamza Alavi estimates that the resource flow from India to Britain between 1793 and 1803 was in the order of £2m a year, the equivalent of many billions today. The economic drain from India, he notes, “has not only been a major factor in India’s impoverishment … it has also been a very significant factor in the Industrial Revolution in Britain.”(1) As Ralph Davis observes in The Industrial Revolution and British Overseas Trade, from the 1760s onwards India’s wealth “bought the national debt back from the Dutch and others … leaving Britain nearly free from overseas indebtedness when it came to face the great French wars from 1793

[Scary]

“Intra-company transfers are temporary, typically only lasting for around 17 months, when the employee will return to their home base.

“Where we can identify the need for a permanent UK-based role then it is our preference to have UK nationals doing that work,” Keith Sharpe, the European marketing director at Tata, said.

And screw British contractors.

[VladimirPutin]

Free world

In the late 19th Century, Davis shows, Britain’s vast deficits with the United States, Germany and its white Dominions were balanced by huge annual surpluses with India and (as a result of the opium trade) China. For a generation “the starving Indian and Chinese peasantries … braced the entire system of international settlements, allowing England’s continued financial supremacy to temporarily co-exist with its relative industrial decline.”(7) Britain’s trade surpluses with India allowed the City to become the world’s financial capital.

[cojak]

In the late 19th Century, Davis shows, Britain’s vast deficits with the United States, Germany and its white Dominions were balanced by huge annual surpluses with India and (as a result of the opium trade) China. For a generation “the starving Indian and Chinese peasantries … braced the entire system of international settlements, allowing England’s continued financial supremacy to temporarily co-exist with its relative industrial decline.”(7) Britain’s trade surpluses with India allowed the City to become the world’s financial capital.

Sorry old son, you might not have realised that we are in 2010...

[eliquant]

Tens of thousands of foreign IT workers are being sent to work for their companies’ subsidiaries in Britain, sparking fears that British workers are being denied job opportunities.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6975922.ece

Good on them to pubish this but its too little too late really.

I guess what the government can do is introduce an employment law to stop this loop hole of non EU foreign workers being transferred 'internally' to British based company positions. America has labour protection laws i.e. the one where they have to prove that no other native American can be found who is ideal for the position when they take on a foreigner into an American domestic job.

[BoredBloke]

Good on them to pubish this but its too little too late really.

I guess what the government can do is introduce an employment law to stop this loop hole of non EU foreign workers being transferred 'internally' to British based company positions. America has labour protection laws i.e. the one where they have to prove that no other native American can be found who is ideal for the position when they take on a foreigner into an American domestic job.

Only the Native Americans? It's easy to flout this law, simply quote the job at a rate far below the market rate so that nobody applies and then you can import your plent cheapness guy

[northernladuk]

Tens of thousands of foreign IT workers are being sent to work for their companies’ subsidiaries in Britain, sparking fears that British workers are being denied job opportunities.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6975922.ece

This is news how? If they had posted this 5-10 years ago it might have told us something everyone in the industry already knows

[stek]

Only the Native Americans? It's easy to flout this law, simply quote the job at a rate far below the market rate so that nobody applies and then you can import your plent cheapness guy

Like Red Indians?

[VladimirPutin]

free world

>>>>native American