Migrant salary rules may cost NHS nurse jobs, union warns - BBC News
Thousands of foreign nurses working in junior posts in the UK could be forced to return home under new immigration rules, union leaders have warned.
A new pay threshold for migrants means non-European workers will have to leave the UK after six years if they are not earning at least £35,000.
The Royal College of Nursing said the rules would "cause chaos" for the NHS and waste money spent on recruitment.
The Home Office said the rules would help reduce demand for migrant labour.
The move is part of the government's effort to control net migration, but the union says that by 2017 more than 3,300 NHS nurses could be affected.
A new pay threshold for migrants means non-European workers will have to leave the UK after six years if they are not earning at least £35,000.
The Royal College of Nursing said the rules would "cause chaos" for the NHS and waste money spent on recruitment.
The Home Office said the rules would help reduce demand for migrant labour.
The move is part of the government's effort to control net migration, but the union says that by 2017 more than 3,300 NHS nurses could be affected.
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