UK bosses call for more immigration to address labor shortages

According to the director of Britain's largest employers' union, the CBI, more than a million jobs fail to be filled, particularly in the hotel and catering industry.

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Inflation, energy crisis, shortages: the menu of the annual congress of British employers was held until Monday evening, in Birmingham in England.

It is also an eminently political meeting since the “Confederation of British Industries” (CBI) is trying to get the government to relax migration rules.

In other words, the bosses are asking for migrants for more labour.

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We must use immigration to solve labor shortages, considers Tony Danker, the director of the first British employers' union.

According to the CBI, more than a million jobs fail to be filled, particularly in the hospitality industry.

Tony Danker believes that the skills of British workers no longer match job vacancies, especially since

ended the possibility for Europeans to come and do odd jobs for a few months.

The director of the CBI therefore calls for more targeted visas.

Solving the labor shortage, he says, will help restore growth as the UK heads into recession.

In his address to Congress on Monday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seemed open to the possibility of granting more visas to "

" workers.

Earlier, one of his ministers had called for more Britons to be trained to avoid "

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