Architects warn post-Brexit visa rules hindering recruitment

Kingsley Napley, along with Bates Wells and our architecture firm clients, called on the home secretary to urgently review the post-Brexit visa salary rules, claiming they are choking an industry that is trying to help meet Labour’s housing targets. Marcia Longdon told the Guardian that the "changes were having a knock-on effect on firms’ ability to staff projects and progress work, with clients reporting the salary threshold was “simply too high for this sector”

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Architects warn post-Brexit visa rules hindering recruitment

Marcia Longdon

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