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work fo
day’s
The government’s
plan to impose a
minimum salary
threshold on EU
workers could spell
trouble for the
industry… or is it a
fair move after all?
he Events Industry Board Talent
Taskforce recently published
their report highlighting a skills
gap in the industry (read CN’s
February issue, p33). Filling these gaps may
have just become all the harder as, at the
end of 2018, the Home Office published a
White Paper on immigration post-Brexit. The
document says that in order to work in the
UK, EU workers would need to earn at least
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£30,000 per year. There are many jobs in
the industry that fall beneath this threshold.
UKinbound, the trade association that
represents nearly 400 of the UK’s top
tourism businesses, responded by urging
the Government to re-think the proposed
salary requirement.
UKinbound, CEO, Joss Croft said:
“Recruiting and retaining good staff in the
inbound tourism industry has always been a