7 d. ago Oxford academic and refugee campaigner 'running illicit operation to bring in foreign workers'... with one allegedly 'vanishing'

Dr Ozlem Galip (pictured) is accused of taking money from small businesses to get them Home Office licences to hire migrant labour despite not being registered with any official regulator.

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7 d. ago Brazen Oxford academic and refugee campaigner 'running illicit operation to bring in foreign workers'... who then 'vanish'

Dr Ozlem Galip (pictured) is accused of taking money from small businesses to get them Home Office licences to hire migrant labour despite not being registered with any official regulator.

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9 d. ago Rich economies may need foreign workers to fuel growth, policymakers warn

Central bankers say low birth rates in world’s largest economies pose threat to productivity and prices

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9 d. ago Rich economies will need foreign workers to fuel growth, policymakers warn

Central bankers say low birth rates in world’s largest economies pose threat to productivity and prices

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1 week ago Love as a business deal? Whales, unicorns and why Materialists and Anora have a lot in common

Both films explore the forfeiting of love for the financial security of a rich man. Sadly, the theme resonates for many in these straitened economic times“Marriage is a business deal and it always has been.” So says Dakota Johnson’s Lucy, an elite Manhattan matchmaker in Celine Song’s second feature, Materialists. Lucy may be a modern woman, but her world looks eerily similar to the marriage mart of Jane Austen’s day. For Lucy and her clients, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Or rather, a “high quality woman”, as Lucy would unironically put it.Materialists drops us head first into a world where coupling off with a partner is a purely financial endeavour; where foolish notions of love are not merely ignored, but deemed to be irrelevant; where women must choose passion or practicality. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Government names technical colleges to train 40,000 construction workers

Ten construction technical excellence colleges will help reduce reliance on foreign construction workers, Government says.

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3 w. ago Revealed: More than 60 Tube staff 'at risk of being deported' after Government changes immigration rules

EXCLUSIVE: Foreign workers who came to London to work for TfL could lose jobs and be forced to leave country, RMT union warns

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last month Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote

Christine Chapman apologizes for role in identity fraud that amassed millions to allegedly aid nuclear weapons programIn March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to “be the US face” of a company and help overseas IT workers gain remote employment.As working from home became the norm for many people, Chapman was able to find jobs for the foreign workers at hundreds of US companies, including some in the Fortune 500, such as Nike; “a premier Silicon Valley technology company”; and one of the “most recognizable media and entertainment companies in the world”. Continue reading...

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