Industry's hardest to fill posts named

By Hamish Champ2019-01-28T12:10:00

Trade groups say access to overseas labour must be kept after Brexit

Construction trade associations have called on the government to work with the sector on addressing the industry’s skills shortage and add a range of roles to ministers’ review of post-Brexit migration plans if it cannot recruit for those jobs within the UK.

Nine trade bodies have identified 18 roles, including bricklayers, civil engineers, quantity surveyors and site supervisors, that are the hardest to recruit for.

The groups said united action between industry and government was needed to address the shortages.

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