Immigration

Thinking about hiring some illegal labor under the table? Think again! The US government is going after employers who hire illegals.

The EU will need around 20 million workers – skilled and unskilled – to fill labor shortages over the next few decades.But will this help correct current professional inequalities among citizens of member states working across the EU?

Thousands of skilled migrants from Asia work in Australia under a skilled visa scheme. But allegation of intimidation, exploitation and abuse – not to mention the deaths of two Filipino workers – have sparked a diplomatic row about the way migrants are treated.

Instead of our irrational distrust of immigrants, we ought to be thanking them for coming. All the DNA in North America originated on some other continent and almost all of it has arrived over the past 200 years. So it can hardly be concluded that immigrants have hurt the American economy.

British employers believe that migrants are significantly harder working, more reliable, more skilled, better educated and more productive than their British colleagues.

Employers in London are suffering from a chronic and growing shortage of skilled staff and half say that they are now depending on migrant workers to plug the gap.

While it is commonplace for people in North America to relocate hundreds or even thousands of miles for professional reasons, European Union efforts to encourage greater labour mobility are failing.

Professional and managerial migrants are boosting the UK economy to the tune of more than £50 billion a year, a sum that represents five per cent of the country's GDP, a new report has suggested.

As a new report highlights the enormous contribution made to the U.S. economy by immigrant entrepreneurs, fears are growing about the long-term effects of restrictive immigration policies.

The influx of economic migrants from Eastern Europe is helping to keep Britain's economy "surprisingly robust", according to a survey by Ernst & Young.

The announcement that Britain is to introduce a points-based system to manage immigration and attract 'the brightest and best' from the developing world to work in the UK has been welcomed as a major step toward meeting the needs of employers.

The UK IT sector is being damaged by a "parochial" and "crazy" attitude towards immigration, according to the boss of the country's most successful software company.

Steve Forbes has raised a contentious issue by accusing the Bush administration of doing the U.S. economy "long term harm by not reforming post-9/11 immigration and visa policies".

Wow. An Indian Airline, that is still nine months away from launch, has just ordered 100 (that's one hundred) new jet airplanes (from Airbus as it happens).

Any efforts to limit immigration into Britain must meet the needs of employers reliant on migrant labour to plug skills gaps, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

The UK's immigrant population is contributing proportionately more money in tax to the exchequer than native British workers, research has suggested.

Some organisations seem to be able to cross cultural barriers with ease while others fail dismally. So what really makes the difference, asks Steve Huxham?

Europe faces a demographic time-bomb with plunging birth rates and an ageing population posing a real threat to economic prosperity over the next 20 years.

As the political debate over immigration becomes increasingly charged, new figures reveal that employers are increasingly using migrant workers to fill vacancies.

Any debate on immigration in the UK needs to take into account recruitment difficulties faced by employers and the risk of imposing arbitrary quotas, employers have warned.

The European Union is considering introducing a US-style green card system to attract skilled immigrants, according to Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini.

Employers have been warned they may have to make better use of migrant labour and those on long-term incapacity benefit if they are to resist increasing upward pressure on wages next year.

Employers are wasting millions of pounds because they fail to use all the skills and qualifications of their staff, a study has warned.

The number of migrant workers who have come to Britain from new EU member states since last May is far higher than previously thought, according to new figures.

Not strictly a workplace issue, but a story in today's International Herald Tribune about an exodus of Irish immigrants from New York caught our eye.

Up to 10 million migrant workers might need to enter the UK between now and 2025 to ensure that pensioners can continue to receive £80 a week from the basic state pension, according to new research.

Growing skills shortages are forcing employers to look to migrant workers to fill key roles as a new survey finds that half of British employers expect to have trouble finding the right staff this year.

There was shock and outrage throughout the UK today as literally hundreds of thousands of East European immigrants failed to arrive in the country. . .

More than 50,000 people immigrants from the new EU accession states are planning to seek work in the UK over the next year, according to the Evening Standard.

Far from being a threat to the UK, the immigration of workers from the ten new EU members in Eastern Europe is essential if the country is to stave off its growing labour shortage.

The UK faces a labour shortage time bomb caused by low fertility rates and an ageing population, according to a report from the World Economic Forum (WEF).

I know that immigration can be an emotional topic, but as an employer as well as a grandson of immigrants, here’s my perspective on immigration and how it affects the workplace.

Better quality jobs and a relaxed working style are the main reasons migrant workers choose the UK over the United States, according to recent UK government research report.