UK gets 2.5m foreign workers
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Over 2.5m foreigners have moved to the UK to work in the past five years, National Insurance figures suggest.
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Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon is to confirm a 2.5% pay award for NHS staff in Scotland.
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The UK's trade gap widens sharply from Â£4.4bn to Â£5.3bn, as imports hit Â£21.5bn, the highest monthly level since records began.
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General Motors Europe will chop 12,000 jobs over two years -- around a fifth of its workforce -- to lop 500 million euros ($673 million
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The British economy has grown by 2.7 percent in 2006, in line with an initial estimate given last month.
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LONDON: Hundreds of skilled and talented workers from Asia, especially Malaysia and China, have given up their dreams of working legally in the United Kingdom due to the stringent entry clearance ruling.
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Overseas students at UK universities will pay up to Â£500 a year to renew visas from April.
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WASHINGTON - Congress is letting employers hire an additional 20,000 foreign high-tech workers under a special visa program after businesses reached the annual ceiling on the first day of the government&#39;s fiscal year.
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Manufacturing helped to lift UK productivity in the second quarter of 2006, official figures show.
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Lloyds TSB is moving another 1,000 jobs to India, increasing its workforce in Bangalore and Mumbai to 2,500 by the end of next year.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to set out measures designed to create 500,000 new jobs for British workers.
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After allegations the industry imports cheap labour Tthe Home Office has said it will review the way it awards work permits to foreign IT bods following an accusation that Work Permits UK was bending the rules to let outsourcing firms import foreign workers on the cheap.â¦
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Three-quarters of British residents back some form of restrictions on immigrant workers, according to a survey.
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Half a million illegal immigrants should be given the right to stay in Britain, a think tank says.
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Standard Chartered Plc, a UK lender that makes two-thirds its profit in Asia, said it fired 200 people, or 5 percent of its employees, in Hong Kong where it&#39;s making less money on home loans.
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Some Polish workers in Britain are illegally claiming child benefit in both the UK and their home country, a BBC investigation has found. Officials in a number of Polish regions told the BBC that up to half the applications they see are fraudulent.  EU rules allow migrant workers to claim benefit for children who are in a different country, but they cannot do so in two countries at once. A similar problem involving German-born Turks led the German government to rescind acknowledgment of dual nationality several years ago.
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The UK government is said to be considering limits for Bulgarians and Romanians seeking jobs in the UK.