“Care providers struggling to recruit say staffing issues include low wages, the pandemic, ‘Brexit’-related workforce changes and summer-holiday leave.” https://news.sky.com/story/social-care-facing-unprecedented-crisis-over-staff-shortages-say-officials-12395264
Posts published in August 2021
“The shortfall has emerged, in part, because 14,000 EU drivers have left the country and only 600 have returned since Brexit.” https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/29/food-beer-toys-medical-kit-why-is-britain-running-out-of-everything?__twitter_impression=true
“It’s been an absolute nightmare. Usually we have CVs coming in continuously, just through word of mouth, but this time round with ‘Brexit’, Covid and…
“Sparse supermarket shelves and hundreds of tonnes of wasted veg are just some of the effects of the increasing crisis sweeping across the labour market…
“Brexit has exacerbated problems with a shortfall of lorry drivers, contributing to the supply-chain problems being experienced in the shops, the head of a Yorkshire…
“Wholesalers are warning schools of the need to ‘stock up’ as the HGV driver crisis intensifies.” https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/wholesalers/schools-told-to-prepare-for-food-shortages/659227.article#.YS0H_I986zE.twitter
Corrinne and Brett Giles live in Donegal and Derry counties due to ‘borderline unconstitutional’ application of immigration rule A South African doctor and her British…
“The double Booker-winning Wolf Hall author said proposals to tear up the Europe-wide regime were ‘deeply concerning’ and would risk a flood of cheap imports.”…
Institute of Directors rejects official advice and says flexible visas also needed to cut staff shortages One of the UK’s biggest business lobby groups has…
“This year’s slump mirrors the party’s unprecedented turmoil over how ‘Brexit’ has turned out for NI.” https://www.politico.eu/article/democratic-unionist-party-brexit-northern-ireland-donaldson/amp/?__twitter_impression=true