29 October 2018

Partner Jennifer Stevens summarises the potential impacts of the post-Brexit immigration system proposed by the recently published Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report. She tells Law360 that businesses only have until December 2020 to prepare for the new immigration system, which would require businesses to sponsor EU citizens under the Tier 2 category, in the same way non-EU migrant workers are being sponsored currently.

While restating the current uncertainty over what the post-Brexit arrangement between Europe and the UK will resemble, Jennifer highlights the substantial cost that could be attached to the hiring of EU workers. A minimum salary threshold, an Immigration Health Surcharge and an Immigration Skills Charge comprise just some of the new costs, amounting to thousands of pounds, which could be associated with hiring each new EU worker

Read the full Law360 article here.