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The UK Government has publicly confirmed that it had never planned to force companies to “name and shame” foreign workers in a move to boost recruitment of local workers. An announcement by Home Secretary Amber Rudd at the Tory party conference alleged that a consultation process would be launched to initiate projects aimed at boosting the employment of UK citizens and reducing immigration in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union. One of these plans included compelling companies to reveal how many foreign workers they were employing.
The idea has received severe criticism from the likes of the British Chambers of Commerce and Ms Rudd’s own brother. According to Former Downing Street policy chief, Steve Hilton, the plan was as worse as the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s suggestion he would ban Muslims from entering the US. In his remarks, Hilton stated that ministers might as well have announced that “foreign workers will be tattooed with numbers on their forearms”.
Meanwhile, former education secretary Nicky Morgan also called the idea “repugnant” and commented that “I was very surprised Amber Rudd put forward that proposal because that is not the Amber Rudd I know.” Morgan mentioned that “the trouble with these sort of policies is they send out a message about the party, about the way we want to approach people coming to this country.” However, a Home Office spokesman said it had never been the idea to publish the details of foreign workers, but simply to compile the numbers.
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