‘Visas for foreign workers to ease labour shortages? No chance’

By Dave Rogers2021-10-14T05:00:00

Modernise or Die author says ‘penny’s dropping’ for firms on issue as he predicts ‘pain ahead’

Hopes that restrictions on overseas workers will be relaxed to help the industry cope with growing labour shortages will fall on deaf ears within the government, Modernise or Die author Mark Farmer has said.

The issue of has overtaken materials shortages as the industry’s biggest concern with top consultants telling Building that queues on petrol station forecourts – caused by worries over a lack of HGV drivers to deliver fuel – have given the industry a foretaste of what’s to come for construction.

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