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<p>The Department for Work and Pensions should be the first port of call for employers
seeking to fill vacancies, rather than the Home Office.</p><p>We do not view any job
as “unskilled”, the difference is how long it takes to train for or gain the necessary
qualifications for it. Where a job needs only a short period of training or time to
acquire the qualifications necessary the focus should be on recruiting from the domestic
labour market, especially given the economic impact of the global pandemic means many
may be looking for new employment or to change careers.</p><p>Immigration policy cannot
be seen as an alternative to improving training and career pathways or tackling issues
such as unattractive pay and working conditions. Given this we will not be introducing
a general migration route allowing employers to recruit at or near the minimum wage,
with no work-based training requirements.</p><p>More broadly, the Government’s Plan
for Jobs is helping people across the country retrain, build new skills and getting
back into work as part of the UK’s recovery from COVID-19, with the Department for
Work and Pensions, Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy
and Industrial Strategy leading work on the overall UK labour market and skills.</p>
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