Many much-needed, highly-skilled migrant workers, facing deportation over new work permit rules, breathed a sigh of relief as UNISON learned that there is to be a big step forward in its campaign to get the changes reversed. The Government has confirmed that further changes to transitional measures to ensure continuity of care will be made. This should mean that thousands of senior care home workers, many originating from the Philippines, who were facing deportation, will be able to stay in their jobs, or apply to work for another care provider. Changes to immigration rules had meant that up to 10,000 senior care workers would not get their work permits renewed because their employers didn’t pay them what the Home Office had decided was the rate for the job.
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