labour and immigration business plan

Language selection

Français fr

New immigration plan to fill labour market shortages and grow Canada’s economy

From: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

News release

Our immigration system has helped shape Canada into the country it is today – one that is prosperous, diverse, and welcoming to those in need. Newcomers enrich and better our communities, and they work every day to create jobs, care for our loved ones, and support local businesses. Throughout the pandemic, they have been on the front lines, working in key sectors like health care, transportation, and manufacturing. Without them, Canada would not have been able to overcome challenges in critical industries and sectors of the economy over the past 2 years. Now, more than ever, immigrants are a key part of our country’s continued success.

February 14, 2022—Ottawa— Our immigration system has helped shape Canada into the country it is today – one that is prosperous, diverse, and welcoming to those in need. Newcomers enrich and better our communities, and they work every day to create jobs, care for our loved ones, and support local businesses. Throughout the pandemic, they have been on the front lines, working in key sectors like health care, transportation, and manufacturing. Without them, Canada would not have been able to overcome challenges in critical industries and sectors of the economy over the past 2 years. Now, more than ever, immigrants are a key part of our country’s continued success.

Today, the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tabled the 2022‒2024 Immigration Levels Plan, which charts an ambitious but responsible path for immigration that will help the Canadian economy recover and will fuel post-pandemic growth, all while strengthening communities and industries across the country that rely on immigration.

The pandemic has highlighted the contributions of newcomers to the well-being of our communities and across all sectors of the economy. Last year, Canada welcomed more than 405,000 new permanent residents—the most immigrants in a single year in our history. Despite having regained many of the jobs lost during the pandemic, there are still hundreds of thousands of positions in all sectors waiting to be filled. Immigration already accounts for almost 100% of labour force growth, and with 5 million Canadians set to retire by the end of this decade, the worker to retiree ratio will drop down to only 3:1. This is a clear sign that we have a strong economic need for increased immigration.

To ensure Canada has the workers it needs to fill critical labour market gaps and support a strong economy into the future, the 2022–2024 Immigration Levels Plan aims to continue welcoming immigrants at a rate of about 1% of Canada’s population, including 431,645 permanent residents in 2022, 447,055 in 2023, and 451,000 in 2024. This plan builds on the previous levels plan, with an increased focus on supporting our economic resurgence and post-pandemic growth.

To support these increased levels, the Government of Canada recently announced a plan to modernize Canada’s immigration system to fuel economic recovery and improve client experience , which will help address key challenges faced by our clients, such as reducing inventories and creating the predictable processing times that our clients expect and deserve.

This plan will help increase the attraction and retention of newcomers in regions with acute economic, labour and demographic challenges. It will also increase Francophone immigration outside Quebec, while supporting the successful integration of French-speaking newcomers and strengthening Francophone communities across the country. As part of our Francophone Immigration Strategy, we’re working to reach a target of 4.4% of French-speaking immigrants outside Quebec by 2023.

Highlights of the plan include:

overall admissions amounting to 1.14% of the Canadian population by 2024.
a long-term focus on economic growth, with nearly 60% of admissions in the Economic Class.
help for vulnerable populations, like the special measures for granting permanent residence to refugee claimants working in health care during the pandemic.
support for global crises by providing a safe haven through humanitarian immigration to those facing persecution.
talent retention of those already in Canada by granting permanent status to temporary residents accepted through the time limited pathways for essential workers launched in spring 2021.

This plan also recognizes the importance of family reunification and helps maintain the 12 month processing standard for spouses and children.

Canada remains firm in its global humanitarian commitments, including the plan to resettle at least 40,000 Afghan nationals over the next 2 years. To date, more than 7,550 Afghan refugees now call Canada home as a result of these efforts. By working with partners in the region, we are using all avenues available to secure safe passage for those in Afghanistan.

The 2022–2024 Immigration Levels Plan will help cement Canada’s place among the world’s top destinations for talent, creating a strong foundation for post-pandemic economic growth while reuniting family members with their loved ones and fulfilling Canada’s humanitarian commitments.

“Immigration has helped shape Canada into the country it is today. From farming and fishing to manufacturing, healthcare and the transportation sector, Canada relies on immigrants. We are focused on economic recovery, and immigration is the key to getting there. Setting bold new immigration targets, as outlined in the 2022-2024 Levels Plan, will further help bring the immeasurable contribution of immigrants to our communities and across all sectors of the economy.” – The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

Quick facts

The levels plan is a projection of how many permanent residents will be admitted to Canada, and it sets targets and ranges for overall admissions immigration categories. Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Minister must table the Levels Plan in Parliament each year.

The levels plan takes into account extensive engagement with provincial and territorial representatives, as well as public opinion research and stakeholder consultations.

Canadians across the country can see how newcomers are benefiting local communities through IRCC’s Immigration Matters campaign.

Under the Canada-Quebec Accord, Quebec establishes its own immigration levels.

Page details

Canada's plan for more immigrants aims to boost workforce, but experts say they'll need support

Ottawa hopes immigration boost can help businesses find the people they need.

Social Sharing

A plan to welcome a record number of immigrants to Canada includes bringing in needed workers, but experts and employers say more could be done to help newcomers arrive and thrive in their new home.

The federal government wants to see 1.45 million new permanent residents in Canada over the next three years, including 500,000 people in 2025.

The push comes as Canada is dealing with a shortage of workers.

"If we don't have immigration, our workforce will not grow," said Anil Verma, professor emeritus of industrial relations and human resources management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

According to the government's fall economic statement , "Immigration is core to our identity as Canadians, while also being a key driver of Canada's economic growth."

Ottawa believes boosting immigration will help address labour needs in a country with an aging population and a record number of people planning retirement.

Ottawa could be 'bolder'

The federal government is aiming for roughly 60 per cent of newcomers to be in the economic class — people coming to Canada for their work skills as well as their accompanying family members — in 2025.

Dennis Darby, president and chief executive officer of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME), said his trade association members are "very thankful" for what the government is doing.

"That's how we're going to get the next generation of people that we need."

The Business Council of Canada (BCC), an advocacy group that represents business leaders across a range of industries, also supports the approach, but believes Ottawa could be "bolder" in its recruitment goals.

"Directionally, we're happy with where the government is going," said Trevor Neiman, the council's director of policy and legal counsel.

First Person Nine years and 15 jobs — the endless cycle is eating at my confidence
Ottawa reveals plan to welcome 500,000 immigrants per year by 2025

Both the BCC and CME support seeing even more workers join the country and the economy.

No matter how large that cohort is, however, Verma points out that the process of moving to another country to start a new life — and securing employment — doesn't happen overnight.

That means the full impact these incoming workers will have on the labour market won't be realized immediately.

"The math on filling job vacancies is very tricky, and I think should not be the basis for long-term immigration policy," said Verma, pointing to economic growth and nation building as being more relevant factors.

'A bumpy ride'

Samitaa Chahal knows how hard the journey to a new life in Canada can be.

She left India and landed in Ontario just two weeks before the pandemic shut everything down in March 2020.

Chahal found herself on her own and trying to make sense of the chaos. That included finding a job amid a world turned upside-down.

Despite having a background in marketing and communications, her first job here was at a long-term care home.

Six months later, she found another job, and has since moved into a position as an instructional designer in the learning and development field — one that she chose over a rival job offer.

Chahal remembers the pride she felt in being able to "pick and choose what I want to do and not [from] what life throws at me."

"It's been a bumpy ride, but I wouldn't have it any other way," she said.

Many skills in demand

The federal government says its immigration plan will help Canadian businesses find people needed in key sectors, including in health care, building trades, manufacturing, and science, technology, education and math (STEM).

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser addressed the issue in a statement released on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. .

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser has said targeted draws will be used next year to bring applicants with the most in-demand skills to specific regions where they're needed.

The minister told Reuters that a key focus will be on recruiting doctors and nurses, in provinces that will work to ensure these newcomers' credentials are recognized quickly.

In terms of the manufacturing sector, the CME's Darby said there's high demand for both skilled and general labour, with more than 80,000 unfilled positions across Canada.

More competition for people

The BCC says its members — which include banks, mining companies and other large employers — have signalled immigration is key for finding needed personnel.

The council conducted a survey in the first quarter of the year that netted responses from 80 of its 170 members. The respondents included CEOs and other high-ranking business professionals.

A construction worker works from a lift on a house

Two-thirds of the respondents said they recruited staff directly via immigration, while the BCC said the rest hired immigrants who were already living here.

Neiman said Canada has benefited greatly from immigration for years and it remains one of Ottawa's strongest tools for addressing labour shortages.

But he said the country now faces more intense competition for people as other nations also face labour shortages.

Analysis Why a booming jobs market may mean a rough road ahead
Canada's working-age population is older than ever, StatsCan says

"Canada really needs to step up its game in order to maintain its advantage," he said.

Ottawa appears to be listening: In its fall economic statement, the government said it would earmark $50 million in additional funding to deal with current backlogs and other issues impeding newcomers' speedy entry to Canada.

Asked about competition the country faces for talent, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said it could "not speculate" on what other nations are doing to attract newcomers.

"The level of immigration to Canada is a policy choice that needs to balance the benefits of immigration with the costs of delivering the program and capacity of our infrastructure," the department said in an email.

Challenges after arriving

Sweta Regmi, founder and CEO of Teachndo Career Consultancy in Sudbury, Ont., sees many newcomers lacking support in navigating the Canadian job market.

Canada adds 108,000 jobs in October, unemployment steady at 5.2%

"The gap ... is in teaching you how to do the job search," said Regmi, a certified career and resume strategist, who sees a persistent issue that she also faced during her own immigration journey two decades ago.

There are programs that provide assistance to people, but Regmi said they are not always well matched to the needs of incoming job seekers.

Chahal found that same process to be a particular challenge as she worked to learn the quirks in a job market that she found more rigid in its hiring practices as compared to India.

The availability of affordable housing is an issue that has gripped domestic politics across Canada lately , but that is just as important for people moving to a new country.

Fraser, the immigration minister, told Reuters that Canada will focus on welcoming more skilled construction workers to help build new housing supply and on selecting newcomers for areas with the "absorptive capacity" to take them.

IRCC said "having adequate investment in settlement, housing and public services is paramount to not only the newcomers' long-term success, but also in ensuring we are delivering the same level of services to all Canadians."

Mikal Skuterud, an economics professor at the University of Waterloo, told CBC's The House it's "relatively easy" for the government to quickly increase the number of newcomers as compared to its ability to rapidly grow the stock of available housing.

Skuterud expects the relative price of housing across regions will be a factor in where many people decide to live.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Geoff Nixon is a writer on the national digital desk in Toronto. He has covered a wealth of topics, from real estate to technology to world events.

With files from Reuters

What are Labour’s new migration plans?

Keir Starmer is on tour to discuss solutions to the migration crisis, including meetings with Europol and Emmanuel Macron

Keir Starmer has been revealing details of how his government would tackle the migration crisis, with a promise to treat people-smuggling gangs like terrorists.

The policy was announced as he and the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, visited The Hague for talks with Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency.

What is Labour proposing?

While ruling out reversing Brexit, the party’s plans are focused on greater cooperation with the EU, a deal that has proved elusive for Rishi Sunak’s government.

Starmer indicated he could do a deal with Brussels involving the UK taking a quota of asylum seekers who arrive in the bloc in exchange for being able to return people who cross the Channel.

Labour also plans to pay for more asylum caseworkers to help clear the backlog of more than 175,000 asylum seekers awaiting an initial decision on their application.

How different is it from the government’s position?

Starmer’s remarks on being open to accepting a quota-based deal with the EU means there is a clear dividing line between the two main parties on immigration.

Sunak’s spokesperson told reporters at Downing Street on Thursday that, while talks continued with the EU on brokering a returns agreement, the government would never accept a quota of migrants as the price for that.

The plan to send people to Rwanda to have their asylum applications processed remains a central element of the government’s stance on immigration, despite being found to be unlawful .

Why are they saying it now?

After months of outlining the five “missions” Labour will put at the centre of its election offer, the party is turning to immigration both because it cannot avoid it and because it is ground on which strategists believe the Tories are vulnerable.

At the front of their minds is the perception that Sunak has been unable to curb unofficial arrivals, despite this being one of his own five pledges, and the opening it gives to Labour.

Outflanking the Tories by using language such as “smashing” criminal gangs is part of a focus on convincing voters in “red wall” seats that Labour has changed since the last election and shares their concerns.

The move is not without risks. Labour figures will continue to face questions in interviews about what level of asylum seekers the party would be willing to accept in government.

How is Labour laying the groundwork?

During his talks with Europol, Starmer was expected to discuss a provisional agreement for a future Labour government, including a replacement for the EU’s live police data and intelligence-sharing system. The UK gave up its seat on the board of Europol after Brexit, a move that ended British access to shared intelligence databases.

Labour has been talking up Starmer’s experience in the field and background as director of public prosecutions as it makes overtures to potential European partners.

That project will continue as Starmer flies to Canada for a conference with centre-left and liberal peers from other countries, where he will seek to build support for a “progressive” answer to the challenges posed by the migration crisis and the siren calls from populist rivals. Next week Starmer will meet Emmanuel Macron in Paris.

What has been the reaction?

Party strategists will be happy with the media coverage the announcement has had in the UK, which included an article for the Sun by Starmer, and its relatively successful unveiling.

Starmer’s concession that an EU deal may involve a quid pro quo of accepting quotas of asylum seekers from the bloc will almost certainly be weaponised in the election by the Tories, although its impact remains to be seen.

While Starmer courted controversy by describing those who disagreed with the plans as “un-British”, otherwise prominent critics of Starmer within Labour held their fire, for now at least.

Elsewhere, there was a welcome from campaigners including Freedom from Torture and the Refugee Council, which said the plans to “restore” the right to asylum and protection was an important moment. But staff from Care4Calais, a refugee charity, accused Starmer of seeking to “mirror” Tory messaging .

There was no immediate response from EU leaders, but a senior European police source with experience of cross-border cooperation highlighted the effect of Brexit on Europol and the changed circumstances a Labour government would face.

“After the Brits left the Irish took more of the top roles where they wanted English speakers,” the source said. “Britain really used to be part of the ‘big three’ of Europe, with France and Germany, but now they have to do everything bilaterally, which is slower.

“ Britain coming back towards Europol would be good for everyone, although there wouldn’t be much appetite for bespoke, special treatment.”

Keir Starmer
European Union

Become an FT subscriber

Try unlimited access Only $1 for 4 weeks

Then $75 per month. Complete digital access to quality FT journalism on any device. Cancel anytime during your trial.

Global news & analysis
Expert opinion
Special features
FirstFT newsletter
Videos & Podcasts
Android & iOS app
FT Edit app
10 gift articles per month

Explore more offers.

Standard digital.

FT Digital Edition

Premium Digital

Print + premium digital, weekend print + standard digital, weekend print + premium digital.

Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device. Pay a year upfront and save 20%.

Global news & analysis
Exclusive FT analysis
FT App on Android & iOS
FirstFT: the day's biggest stories
20+ curated newsletters
Follow topics & set alerts with myFT
FT Videos & Podcasts
20 monthly gift articles to share
Lex: FT's flagship investment column
15+ Premium newsletters by leading experts
FT Digital Edition: our digitised print edition
Weekday Print Edition
Videos & Podcasts
Premium newsletters
10 additional gift articles per month
FT Weekend Print delivery
Everything in Standard Digital
Everything in Premium Digital

Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders. Pay a year upfront and save 20%.

10 monthly gift articles to share
Everything in Print

Terms & Conditions apply

Explore our full range of subscriptions.

Why the ft.

See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times.

International Edition

Buffalo: (716) 970-4007 | Toronto: (866) 697-1832

L-1 & E-2 Visas: The Need of a Immigration Business Plan

When navigating the complexities of L-1 and E-2 visa applications, a tailored immigration business plan is not just beneficial—it’s essential. Such a plan goes beyond the scope of traditional business plans by focusing on specific visa requirements and demonstrating your venture’s potential contribution to the U.S. economy. Below, we go into each critical component of a successful immigration business plan, offering insights and guidance to bolster your application.

1. Comprehensive Business Overview

Objective: This section aims to introduce your business to immigration officials comprehensively and concisely. It should lay out the foundation of your business, explaining what it does, its target market, and its unique value proposition.

Details to Include:

Nature of the Business: Explain whether it’s a service, manufacturing, or product-oriented venture and the industry it operates within.
Business Goals and Objectives: Outline what your business aims to achieve in the short and long term.
Unique Selling Proposition: Highlight what sets your business apart from competitors in the same market.

2. Detailed Proof of Investment

Objective: To demonstrate your financial commitment and the viability of your business through a detailed financial plan.

Capital Investment: Provide specifics on the amount of capital invested in the business and the sources of this capital.
Operational Costs: Break down the operational expenses, including rent, payroll, utilities, and marketing.
Financial Projections: A five-year financial forecast showing projected revenue, expenses, and profitability.

3. Compliance with Business Requirements

Objective: Showcase your business’s adherence to all relevant U.S. laws, regulations, and standards.

Licenses and Permits: List all the necessary operational licenses and permits you have acquired or are acquiring.
Regulatory Compliance: Explain how your business complies with relevant local, state, and federal regulations, including environmental, health, and safety standards.

4. Job Creation and Employment Outlook

Objective: Illustrate your business’s potential to contribute positively to the U.S. labor market.

Organizational Structure: Present an organizational chart detailing current and future positions.
Hiring Timeline: Offer a timeline for new hires, including the types of positions and the expected impact on business growth.
Job Descriptions: Provide detailed descriptions for each role, emphasizing the qualifications and responsibilities.

5. Establishment of Physical Premises

Objective: Demonstrate the suitability of your U.S. business premises for operational needs.

Location Details: Describe the location of your business, including advantages related to logistics, market access, or clientele.
Lease or Purchase Agreements: Present evidence of ownership or lease agreements for the property.
Facility Readiness: Discuss any modifications or preparations to ensure the facility meets your business needs.

6. In-depth Market Analysis and Strategy

Objective: To affirm your business’s viability and competitive edge within the U.S. market.

Market Analysis: Conduct a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) to evaluate market conditions, competition, and potential challenges.
Marketing Strategy: Outline your approach to capturing your target market, including digital marketing, advertising, and sales strategies.
Long-term Sustainability: Discuss how your business plans to adapt and grow over time, ensuring long-term success.

7. Demonstrating Ability to Develop and Direct

Objective: Prove your capability to lead and grow your business effectively.

Background and Experience: Detail your educational background, relevant work experience, and any entrepreneurial ventures, highlighting how these contribute to your ability to manage the business.
Leadership Qualities: Share examples of leadership experience, problem-solving skills, and any recognitions or awards.
Vision for the Business: Convey your strategic vision for growth and how you plan to achieve it.

A detailed and well-structured immigration business plan is pivotal to your L-1 or E-2 visa application. It demonstrates your commitment and capability to operate a successful business in the U.S. and how your venture will positively impact the economy. By thoroughly addressing each of these components, your business plan will stand as a robust testament to the viability and value of your business proposition, significantly enhancing the likelihood of visa approval. We recommend working with a professional business plan writer with specific expertise in immigration business plans.

Subscribe to Our Resources Blog

Schedule a Consultation with an Immigration Lawyer

9 FAM E Visas: Treaty Traders and Investors
9 FAM L1 Visas for Intracompany Transferees
USCIS: E Visas for Treaty Traders and Investors
USCIS: L Visas for Intracompany Transferees
Matter of Ho – Business Plan Requirements

We Can Help!

You may have questions regarding U.S. immigration laws and visas. We invite you to contact our team at Richards and Jurusik for detailed guidance and assistance. We aim to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information to make your immigration process smoother and less stressful. The immigration lawyers at Richards and Jurusik have decades of experience helping people to work and live in the United States. Read some of our hundreds of 5-star client reviews ! Contact us today to assess your legal situation.

FY2023 H-1B Lottery: What Comes After Selection?

The FY2023 H-1B lottery has commenced, and USCIS is notifying the fortunate ones. What’s next after your selection? This comprehensive guide walks you through the essential steps, ensuring you navigate the post-lottery process seamlessly.

Do I need to speak English to get a TN visa?

Under the USCMA, there is no specific mandate regarding English language proficiency for TN visa issuance. However, it becomes a nuanced factor that could influence the approval of your application. Your ability to speak English may be scrutinized by reviewing officers, who assess whether it aligns with the demands of the offered position.

Navigating the Complexity: A Successful L1B Visa Approval for a Technical Sales Professional

Discover the nuances of securing L1B visa approval for a Technical Sales Professional in this insightful case study. Uncover the hurdles faced and the strategies that led to a successful outcome, providing valuable insights into navigating the complexities of USCIS L1B visa approval.

Understanding “Reasonable Costs” for Return Transportation in Prematurely-Ended H-1B Visas

Discover the nuances of who bears the “reasonable costs” of return transportation for H-1B Visa holders in premature termination scenarios. This guide clarifies the obligations based on employer or employee-initiated termination and emphasizes the importance of compliance. Contact our team for assistance if you suspect non-compliance with these regulations.

TN Visa Status as a Scientific Technician or Scientific Technologist ST/T

TN Visas for Scientific Technicians and Technologists

Qualified Canadian and Mexican citizens can obtain TN visa status to work in the United States as Scientific Technicians and Scientific Technologists under the USMCA (NAFTA). Scientific Technicians and Scientific Technologists are listed as one of the qualifying USMCA professions. We discuss the professions of Scientific Technicians and Scientific Technologists for TN visa purposes and how to qualify here.

How to qualify for a TN Visa as a Range Manager

The profession of a Range Manager or Range Conservationist is listed as a qualifying TN Visa profession under the USMCA (NAFTA). If you are a Canadian or Mexican Range Manager or Range Conservationist with an offer of employment to work in the United States, you may qualify for TN Visa status. We discuss the Range Manager or Range Conservationist profession and how to be eligible for TN Visa status here.

How New Labour made Britain into a migration state

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Immigration Politics & Policy, University of Sussex

Disclosure statement

Erica Consterdine received Economic and Social Research Council funding (grant number MP/21013669)

University of Sussex provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK.

View all partners

Net migration in the UK fell the most in the year to June 2017 since records began , according to new data released by the Office for National Statistics.

Perhaps Britain is starting to feel the pinch of “ Brexodus” “. Or maybe it’s too early to tell . Having maintained and failed to meet the Conservative pledge to reduce net migration for the last seven years, Theresa May is likely to be relieved. But whether the opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is pleased or troubled is unclear.

The Labour Party has been relatively silent on what post-Brexit immigration system it wants – or thinks the UK needs. But because Britain’s vote to leave the EU was partly fuelled by anti-immigrant sentiment , and the Labour Party has done little but fight internally about immigration since the 2015 election if not earlier, this silence is not surprising.

The party’s reticence and the factionalism on the issue are of its own making. To understand both why immigration is dominating the debate and how Labour got into this policy dilemma, we have to look back to immigration policy under Tony Blair’s New Labour.

Managed migration

Under Blair’s Labour government, Britain’s economic immigration policy went from a highly restrictive approach to one of the most expansive in Europe, as I examined in new research . Work permit criteria were relaxed, the number of international students was doubled, the government expanded existing low and high-skilled migrant worker schemes and launched new ones and, from 2005, initiated a new points-based immigration system. Overshadowing these important reforms was the 2004 decision to allow citizens of eight countries that were about to join the EU the immediate right to work in Britain. This decision alone resulted in one of the largest migration flows in Britain’s peacetime history.

Put into historical context, Labour’s reforms were an unprecedented policy reversal. With 2.5m foreign-born workers added to the population since 1997 and net migration averaging 200,000 per year between 1997 and 2010 – five times higher than under the previous administration government of 1990-1996 – immigration under Labour quite literally changed the face of Britain.

Labour’s managed migration programme was certainly not a vote winner. Public concern about large-scale immigration contributed to Labour’s electoral defeat in 2010 and 2015. Such policies dogged Labour’s subsequent terms in opposition . In no Western country can a party appear to gain votes by favouring new immigration.

It’s worth emphasising that there was no plan or strategy within the Labour government to expand immigration policy when the party entered office in 1997. The final product of managed migration was a consequence of a number of policies from different departments. The Treasury and the Department for Trade and Industry pushed for high-skilled migration. The Department for Education and Employment bolstered the case for expanding international students. And the Foreign and Commonwealth Office shaped the infamous decision on the new eight EU members in 2004.

Combined, these policy schemes produced a liberalising effect on immigration policy. The government then pulled these schemes together to form a cohesive narrative of managed migration . But these reforms were nonetheless underpinned by an ideology – and this is the key to why policy evolved as it did, why the party is split on the issue now – and how Britain got on the road to Brexit.

New Labour, new times

At the heart of Labour’s infamous re-branding as New Labour in 1997 was the adoption of ” third-way politics “. This ideological reorientation is critical to understanding why economic immigration policy changed, because of three contingent elements of Labour’s new-found philosophy. First, the party’s neoliberal economic programme, hinging on measures to counter inflation and promote flexibility in the labour market. Second, Labour’s culturally cosmopolitan notion of citizenship and integration. Third – and fundamentally underpinning Labour’s economic programme and the inception of "new” Labour altogether – was an uncompromising belief in the inevitability of globalisation.

Economic globalisation was presented as an irreversible fact of life, and a natural development of capitalism that could not be controlled. According to Blair , the only “rational response” to globalisation was “to manage it, prepare for it, and roll with it”. Blair’s 2005 speech to the Labour Party conference perfectly encapsulated this pitting of the losers versus winners of globalisation . He said :

I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation. You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer.

Labour claimed there was simply no alternative to globalisation. This logic trickled down to shape the objectives of many public policies. With immigration being “ the human element of globalisation ”, it was assumed to be both inevitable and intrinsically positive by the leading faction of the party.

Beyond New Labour

New Labour’s reforms brought immigration to the forefront of British politics – and debates on immigration will now remain a key fixture of the political landscape. To have any chance of winning office , Labour needs to win back its lost traditional working-class voters while retaining its liberal metropolitan so-called “Blairite base”. This is the progressive dilemma of Labour – one brought to the fore by New Labour’s immigration regime.

Blair’s narrative that people must adapt and move with the times or risk decline was clearly a winning electoral rhetoric in the 2000s. But this polarisation seemed to ignore the public’s desire for control, security and social order. When the financial crisis hit in 2008 – propelled by the globally interdependent financial systems New Labour helped to create – it is little wonder why much of the British public felt let down. They were alienated and angry at this global, open system for which many were certainly not seeing the benefits, only the costs. Immigration is one of the most concrete representations of globalisation – and therefore the easiest target for public antagonism in contrast to the faceless and abstract forces of neoliberalism, globalisation and austerity.

New Labour’s managed migration policy brought hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the UK, which has economically benefited the country and will culturally enrich society for generations. But the regime plays a part in the story of the politicisation of immigration and the road to Brexit.

In May 2017, Corbyn said that free movement will end after Brexit – but whether he wants this to happen is hard to determine. If Corbyn is to maintain that free movement will end, while retaining Labour’s ideological offer as the party of social justice, he needs a realistic policy on how to protect migrant workers’ rights in the face of likely surges in irregular immigration .

But more importantly, Corbyn should heed his predecessors’ lessons – giving economic solutions to what is, for many, an issue of identity is not a winning strategy . Corbyn’s Labour needs to craft a progressive narrative on immigration, one which makes sense with their ideology of tolerance, acknowledges the role of immigration in culture, identity, and nation-building, and makes sense in post-Brexit Britain.

Immigration
Labour Party
Jeremy Corbyn
British immigration policy

Events and Communications Coordinator

Assistant Editor - 1 year cadetship

Executive Dean, Faculty of Health

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Earth System Science (School of Science)

Sydney Horizon Educators (Identified)

Sat 11 May 2024

2024 newspaper of the year

@ Contact us

Your newsletters

The crucial missing piece of Labour’s immigration plan

The most effective way to stop the boats would be to open safe and legal routes to claim asylum.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 02: Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer leaves a polling station after casting his vote in the local elections in London, United Kingdom on May 02, 2024. Millions of voters across England head to the polls today to decide on thousands of council seats, and also to choose the Mayor of London, London Assembly members and 10 mayors outside the capital. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda may well be the most obscene and morally debased nadir of a Conservative government that has wallowed in a gutter of sleaze and scandal.

The policy has been opposed by Labour , but mostly on technocratic grounds – as “expensive” and “unworkable”. These are secondary objections. If we are to have a functioning asylum policy, we need a rational debate, and that requires politicians to speak less like bureaucratic functionaries and more like political leaders with clear morals.

The far-right language that dominates the debate is of “illegal migrants”, “bogus asylum seekers”, even “invaders”. Labour has to find a moral register to counter this narrative that those seeking refuge here are illegitimate.

The UN estimates that there are more than 100 million people displaced due to war, persecution, and famine. About half are internally displaced – meaning that they have been forced to flee their homes, but are still within their own country.

Many of the remainder live in neighbouring countries, with Refugee Action estimating that 73 per cent of refugees are in nations neighbouring their own. Turkey, which shares a land border with Syria, Iran and Iraq, is currently home to nearly four million refugees.

A tiny dribble of this displaced mass of humanity comes to Europe, and a small proportion of that comes to the UK (many because they have family or friends here, or have worked with UK businesses or the British Army). Our country has received about 90,000 applications in each of the last two years. Fewer asylum seekers come to the UK than to France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

And yet here we are, the sixth largest economy in the world, a signatory to the Refugee Convention and to the European Convention on Human Rights (both ratified by Winston Churchill), passing legislation to bribe a dictatorship to take asylum seekers so we don’t have to.

In 2021, the UK government (then led by Boris Johnson) condemned Rwanda’s poor human rights record at the United Nations , citing torture, deaths in custody and disappearances. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s dictator, has ruled the country since 2000, having polled 98.8 per cent of the vote in a sham election in 2017.

In the last decade – all under Conservative governments – the UK has granted asylum or humanitarian protection to Rwandans fleeing the country.

We are shirking our global responsibility.

Asked on Wednesday by Sky News’s Beth Rigby if reports were true that Labour was considering keeping the Rwanda scheme, even temporarily, Keir Starmer replied categorically: “No.” Adding: “I don’t believe in the scheme, I don’t believe it will work.”

The unprecedented betrayal at the heart of the Rwanda plan

This is welcome, as is the fact that Labour has voted against the scheme in the House of Commons, opposing both the Illegal Migration Act and the recently passed Safety of Rwanda Act.

As well as cracking down on “criminal smuggler gangs”, it says it will recruit more staff to clear the asylum backlog, negotiate an agreement with France, and have a clearer process for refugees with family connections in the UK to apply for resettlement.

But where Labour is still failing – morally and functionally – is in pretending that the solution to a global crisis can be found in the rhetoric and failed policies of crackdowns and tough law and order. Starmer still talks of “the gangs running this vile trade” and more stringent “law enforcement”.

Where Labour leaves a moral vacuum, both activists and civil servants are joining the fight, and the UK courts may again strike down the laws, rendering the scheme dead before Labour forms the next government.

The most effective way to stop the boats – a dangerous and tragically deadly means to reach these shores – would be to open safe and legal routes to claim asylum, so that people can come here safely, and have the claims assessed fairly. Few are going to risk getting on a boat if they can come across legally and safely, and encounter a fair system.

But if we want to stop people becoming refugees in the first place (and the tiny percentage who seek asylum in the UK) the best thing we can do is address the drivers of displacement: war, persecution and famine.

That means stopping the funding and arming of dictatorships like Kagame’s in Rwanda, or Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud’s despotic regime in Saudi Arabia . It means not launching catastrophic wars in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, and it means accelerating, not diluting, our efforts to tackle climate change.

Starmer’s commitment to dumping the Rwanda scheme is welcome, but now he must find the political courage to replace the failed rhetoric that led us here, with humane sentiments and policies.

Andrew Fisher is a former executive director of policy for the Labour Party

Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS)

LBS Updates
Literacy and Basic Skills
Additional Tools
Administration & Agreements
Business Planning
Corrections Literacy Initiative
Legislative Obligations
Performance Management
Regional Network Literacy Service Planning
Skills for Success Initiative
The Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework (OALCF)
Memo: Launch of the 2024 Council of the Federation Literacy Award (COFLA) process (posted on March 18, 2024) (PDF, 144 KB)
ADM Memo: Allocations for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (posted on March 13, 2024) (PDF, 207 KB)
Memo: 2024-2025 Employment Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements (posted on January 29, 2024) (PDF, 130 KB)
Support Organization Guidelines (Revised December 2023) (PDF, 737 KB)
Service Provider Guidelines (Revised December 2023) (PDF, 963 KB)
Questions and Answers: Program Guidelines and Webpage Update (posted on December 15, 2023) (PDF, 144 KB)
Assets Report (posted on December 4, 2023) (PDF, 50 KB)
Memo: Support for Asylum Seekers (posted on November 27, 2023) (PDF, 105 KB)
Employment Ontario 2024-25 Business Plan Template Release in EOIS-SP Connect (posted on November 27, 2023) (PDF, 204 KB)
Memo: Claimant Information Sessions and Service Canada Live Sessions (posted on August 28, 2023)
Memo: Employment Ontario Data for Local Boards and Literacy and Basic Skills Regional Networks (posted on August 28, 2023)
ADM Memo: Important Update Regarding the Canadian General Educational Development Test (posted on August 11, 2023)
Memo: 2023 Council of the Federation Literacy Award (COFLA) (posted on April 21, 2023) (posted on April 21, 2023) (PDF, 127 KB)
Memo: New Milestones in EOIS-CaMS (posted on March 22, 2023) (posted on March 22, 2023) (PDF, 164 KB)
Memo: 2023-2024 Employment Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements (posted on January 27, 2023) (PDF, 161 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
ADM Memo: Allocations for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Literacy and Basic Skills (posted on December 22, 2022) (PDF, 169 KB)
Memo: Revisions to Submitting a Certificate of Insurance (COI) or Other Similar Proof to the Ministry (posted on December 7, 2022) (PDF, 125 KB)
Memo: 2023-2024 Literacy Service Planning for Regional Networks (posted on September 21, 2022) (PDF, 52 KB)
Regional Network Literacy Service Planning Template (posted on September 21, 2022) (PDF, 2,991 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
Service Delivery Charts (posted on October 4, 2022) (PDF, 47 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
Questions and Answers: Administrative Costs Survey (posted on September 15, 2022) (PDF, 395 KB)
ADM Memo: Reminder about External Communications Activities (posted on September 8, 2022) (PDF, 169 KB)
Questions and Answers: Ministry Name Change (posted on September 9, 2022) (PDF, 108 KB)
Memo: Employment Ontario Data for Release to Local Boards and Literacy and Basic Skills Regional Networks (posted on August 25, 2022) (PDF, 126 KB)
Memo to the EO Network - Purchasing Gift Cards with Government of Ontario Funding (posted on May 10, 2022) (PDF, 145 KB)
Questions and Answers - Purchasing Gift Cards with Government of Ontario Funding (posted on May 4, 2022) (PDF, 128 KB)
Memo: Wrongdoing Expectations in Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements (posted on April 14, 2022) (PDF, 102 KB)
Memo: Purchasing Gift Cards with Government of Ontario Funding (posted on April 12, 2022) (PDF, 98 KB)
Memo: Employment Ontario Supports for People Affected by the Conflict in Ukraine (posted on April 11, 2022) (PDF, 120 KB)
Memo: Access to Employment Ontario Programs for Individuals with 900-Series Social Insurance Numbers, including Ukrainian and other visitors under Emergency Travel measures (posted on December 28, 2022) (PDF, 194 KB)
Memo: Business Day Definition and Public Holidays (posted on March 29, 2022) (PDF, 123 KB)
Memo: New Transfer Payment Requirement -Tax Compliance Verification and Attestation of Compliance with Labour and Environment Laws (posted on February 10, 2022) (PDF, 169 KB)
ADM Memo: 2022-2023 Employment Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements (posted on February 8, 2022) (PDF, 193 KB)
ADM Memo to the EO Network: Allocations for Fiscal Year 2022-2023 - Literacy and Basic Skills (posted on February 7, 2022) (PDF, 46 KB)
Memo: Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) Support Organizations and E-Channel Support Organization Transfer Payment Amending Agreement Error in Original Agreement Effective Date (posted on November 29, 2021) (PDF, 172 KB)
ADM Memo: Literacy and Basic Skills - American Sign Language Interpreter/Intervenor Fund (posted on November 17, 2021) (PDF, 118 KB)
ADM Memo: Literacy and Basic Skills Special Initiatives for 2021-2022 (posted on October 1, 2021) (PDF, 82 KB)
Memo: 2022-2023 Literacy Service Planning for Regional Networks (posted on September 21, 2021) (PDF, 113 KB)
Regional Network Literacy Service Planning Template (posted on September 21, 2021) (PDF, 2,017 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
Service Delivery Charts (posted on September 21, 2021) (PDF, 44 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
Memo: Employment Ontario Data for release to Local Boards and Literacy and Basic Skills Regional Networks (posted on July 28, 2021) (PDF, 59 KB)
Memo: 2021-2022 Monitoring of Employment Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements (posted on June 21, 2021) (PDF, 170 KB)
Memo: Access to Employment Ontario Programs for Individuals with 900-Series Social Insurance Numbers (posted on June 18, 2021) (PDF, 110 KB)
Memo: Ongoing Availability of Emergency Response Funding in 2021-2022 (posted on May 28, 2021) (PDF, 105 KB)
Memo: 2021 Council of the Federation Literacy Award (posted on May 25, 2021) (PDF, 121 KB)
Memo: 2020-2021 Year-End Financial Reporting Requirements (posted on May 19, 2021) (PDF, 114 KB)
Memo: Submitting a Certificate of Insurance or Other Similar Proof to the Ministry (posted on April 29, 2021) (PDF, 117 KB)
Memo: 2021-2022 Employment Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements (posted on March 30, 2021) (PDF, 111 KB)
Memo: EO Transfer Payment Use of Funds (posted on February 2, 2021) (PDF, 108 KB)
Memo: 2020-2021 Monitoring of Employment Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements (posted on November 10, 2020) (PDF, 167 KB)
Memo: 2021-2022 Literacy Service Planning (posted on August 31, 2020) (PDF, 172 KB)
Memo: 2019-2020 Audited Financial Statements (posted on July 28, 2020) (PDF, 170 KB)
Memo: Supporting EO participant technology needs (posted on May 20, 2020) (PDF, 173 KB)
Questions and Answers: Updated Literacy and Basic Skills (posted on March 31, 2020) (PDF, 118 KB)
Support Organization Guidelines (posted on March 31, 2020) (PDF, 363 KB)
Service Provider Guidelines (posted on March 31, 2020) (PDF, 560 KB)
ADM Memo to the EO Network: Corrections Literacy Initiative Pilot Expansion (posted on March 24, 2020) (PDF, 127 KB)
Questions and Answers on the Corrections Literacy Initiative (posted on March 24, 2020) (PDF, 118 KB)
ADM Memo to the EO Network: Update on Employment Ontario Allocations for 2020-2021 (posted on March 20, 2020) (PDF, 86 KB)
Memo: Social Insurance Number Data Collection Update for Literacy and Basic Skills Program (posted on December 31, 2019) (PDF, 103 KB)
Questions and Answers: Social Insurance Data Collection Update for Literacy and Basic Skills Program (posted on December 31, 2019) (PDF, 98 KB)
Memo: Employment Ontario Data for release to the Local Boards, Local Employment Planning Councils and Literacy and Basic Skills Regional Networks (posted on December 11, 2019) (PDF, 143 KB)
Memo: 2020-2021 Business Plan Templates (posted on November 22, 2019) (PDF, 135 KB)
Memo: 2020-2021 Literacy Service Planning (posted on September 23, 2019) (PDF, 89 KB)
2020-2021 Regional Network Literacy Service Planning Template (posted on September 23, 2019) (PDF, 2,000 KB)
2020-2021 Service Delivery Charts (posted on September 23, 2019) (PDF, 45 KB)
Memo: 2019-2020 Employment Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements: Audited Financial Statements Submission Instructions (posted on September 18, 2019) (PDF, 82 KB)
Memo: LBS SIN Collection (posted on July 4, 2019) (PDF, 63 KB)
Script for Service Providers SIN Collection in LBS (posted on July 4, 2019) (PDF, 77 KB)
Memo: 2019 Council of the Federation Literacy Award (posted on July 3, 2019) (PDF, 88 KB)
Questions and Answers for Service Providers (posted on April 25, 2019) (PDF, 249 KB)
Memo: Training Supports (posted on February 7, 2019) (PDF, 26 KB)
Memo: LBS Waitlists (posted on January 21, 2019) (PDF, 95 KB)
Memo: 2019-2020 Business Planning (posted on November 28, 2018) (PDF, 95 KB)
Memo: 2019-20 Literacy Service Planning (posted on October 12, 2017) (PDF, 37 KB)
2019-20 Literacy Service Planning: Service Provider Questions and Answers (posted on October 12, 2017) (PDF, 37 KB)
Strengthening Ontario's Adult Education System - Report Back (posted on May 11, 2018) (PDF, 117 KB)
Memo: Council of the Federation Literacy Award (posted on May 2, 2018) (PDF, 253 KB)
Memo: EO Assets Report: IT Refresh 2017/2018 (posted on April 27, 2018) (PDF, 79 KB)
Memo: Learner Gains Research Project Reports (posted on April 6, 2018) (PDF, 46 KB)
Questions and Answers: Learner Gains Research Project Reports (posted on April 6, 2018) (PDF, 156 KB)
Final Report: Learner Gains Research Project (posted on April 6, 2018) (PDF, 913 KB)
Evaluation Report: Learner Gains Research Project (posted on April 6, 2018) (PDF, 228 KB)
Memo: Update on LBS Improvement and Expansion (posted on March 29, 2018) (PDF, 57 KB)
Questions and Answers: 2018-19 Lifelong Learning and Skills Investment in LBS (posted on March 5, 2018) (PDF, KB)
LBS Symposium: Responses to Feedback on Employment Ontario Information System – Case Management System (EOIS CaMS) (posted on March 2, 2018) (PDF, 378 KB)
LBS Improvement and Expansion Qs and As (posted on February 2, 2018) (PDF, 92 KB)
LBS Improvement and Expansion Steering Committee (posted on April 20, 2018) (PDF, 48 KB)
Improvement and Expansion Working Table 1 (posted on April 20, 2018) (PDF, 56 KB)
Improvement and Expansion Working Table 2 (posted on April 20, 2018) (PDF, 52 KB)
Improvement and Expansion Working Table 3 (posted on April 20, 2018) (PDF, 39 KB)
Improvement and Expansion Reference Group 1 (posted on April 20, 2018) (PDF, 75 KB)
Improvement and Expansion Reference Group 2 (posted on April 20, 2018) (PDF, 147 KB)
LBS Symposium: October 5 Summary Report (posted on February 2, 2018) (PDF, 962 KB)
LBS Symposium: October 6 Summary Report (posted on February 2, 2018) (PDF, 465 KB)
Adult Education Collaborative Project (posted on January 25, 2018) (PDF, 219 KB)
Partnership Memo (posted on January 25, 2018) (PDF, 166 KB)
Project Application Form (posted on January 25, 2018) (PDF, 180 KB)
Funding Request Template (posted on January 26, 2018 Revised) (PDF, 46 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
Official Review – Questions and Answers for Service Providers (posted on January 12, 2018) (PDF, 211 KB)
Memo: Strengthening Ontario’s Adult Education System (posted on December 4, 2017) (PDF, 47 KB)
LBS Symposium: Joint ADM Memo to Employment Ontario Network (posted on November 24, 2017) (PDF, 257 KB)
LBS Symposium: October 5 Draft Summary Report (posted on November 24, 2017) (PDF, 893 KB)
LBS Symposium: Call for Participation Reference Document (posted on November 24, 2017) (PDF, 522 KB)
LBS Symposium: Employment Ontario Network Questions and Answers (posted on November 24, 2017) (PDF, 236 KB)
Memo: Code for Canada Fellowship (posted on November 17, 2017) (PDF, 256 KB)
Memo: IT Improvement for LBS Network (posted on November 10, 2017) (PDF, 28 KB)
Memo: Official Review (posted on November 10, 2017) (PDF, 29 KB)
Paper Based Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on October 20, 2017) (PDF, 39 KB)
Targeted Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on October 20, 2017) (PDF, 48 KB)
Comprehensive Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on October 20, 2017) (PDF, 45 KB)
Support Organization Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on October 20, 2017) (PDF, 1,048 KB)
Memo: Literacy and Basic Skills Symposium (posted on August 30, 2017) (PDF, 250 KB)
Memo: 2018-2019 LBS Literacy Service Planning and Coordination (posted on August 25, 2017) (PDF, 30 KB)
2018-2017 Regional Network LSP Template (posted on August 25, 2017) (PDF, 1,638 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
2018-2019 Service Delivery Charts (posted on August 25, 2017) (PDF, 44 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
ADM Letter to EO Network on the Corrections Literacy Initiative (posted on August 10, 2017) (PDF, 204 KB)
Joint ADM Letter to EO Network on Four-Year LBS Funding Increase (posted on June 16, 2017) (PDF, 167 KB)
Questions and Answers on Four-Year LBS Funding Increase (posted on June 16, 2017) (PDF, 104 KB)
COFLA letter to Literacy and Basic Skills Service Providers and Support Organizations (posted May 10, 2017) (PDF, 32 KB)
Deputy Minister’s Letter to the EO Network (posted April 2017) (PDF, 167 KB)
Assistant Deputy Minister’s Letter to the EO Network (posted April 2017) (PDF, 173 KB)
Literacy and Basic Skills Evaluation Report (posted April 2017) (PDF, 2,099 KB)
Executive Summary: Evaluation Report (posted April 2017) (PDF, 758 KB)
Memo: Revised LBS guidelines for service providers and support organizations (posted March 2017) (PDF, 18 KB)
Memo: 2017-2018 Business Planning Questions and Answers (posted January 2017) (PDF, 74 KB)
Questions and Answers: 2017-2018 Business Planning (posted January 2017) (PDF, 137 KB)
Memo: 2017-2018 Business Planning (posted December 2016) (PDF, 63 KB)
2017-2018 Business Plan Service Provider Site Instructions (posted December 2016) (PDF, 140 KB)
2017-2018 Business Plan Support Organization Instructions (posted December 2016) (PDF, 230 KB)
Memo: Learner Gains Research Project Final Entry Date for Exit Assessment Scores (posted on November 16, 2016) (PDF, 192 KB)
2016-2017 Support Organization Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on November 3, 2016) (PDF, 2,259 KB)
Memo: 2017-2018 Regional Network Literacy Service Planning Extension (posted September 2016) (PDF, 190 KB)
Memo: 2017-2018 Regional Network Literacy Service Planning (posted September 2016) (PDF, 187 KB)
2017-2018 Regional Network Literacy Service Plan (posted September 2016) (PDF, 2,039 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
2017-2018 Service Delivery Chart (posted September 2016) (PDF, 187 KB) ( Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions .)
LBS Data Dictionary (posted September 2016) (PDF, 1,588 KB)
2016-2017 Paper Based Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on September 1, 2016) (PDF, 1,325 KB)
2016-2017 Targeted Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on September 1, 2016) (PDF, 1,325 KB)
2016-2017 Comprehensive Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on September 1, 2016) (PDF, 910 KB)
2016-2017 Support Organization Self-Assessment Questionnaire (posted on September 1, 2016) (PDF, 2,259 KB)
Support Organization QSAR Template (posted on August 29, 2016) (PDF, 999 KB)
Memo – LBS Service Delivery QSAR (posted on July 7, 2016) (PDF, 80 KB)
Service Delivery QSAR Template (posted on July 7, 2016) (PDF, 1,000 KB)
Service Delivery QSAR Template Instructions (posted on July 7, 2016) (PDF, 372 KB)
Memo – LBS Support Organization QSAR (posted on July 7, 2016) (PDF, 35 KB)
Support Organization QSAR Template (posted on July 7, 2016) (PDF, 999 KB)
Call for Applications – 2016 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes (posted on June 10, 2016)
Revised OALCF Milestone and Culminating Task Materials (posted on May 13, 2016) (PDF, 137 KB)
Council of the Federation Literacy Award (posted on May 11, 2016) (PDF, 97 KB)
Revised LBS Guidelines for Service Providers and Support Organizations (posted on April 8, 2016)
Entering Essential Skills for Employment and Education (ESEE) data in EOIS-CaMS (posted on March 14, 2016)
Questions and Answers for Service Providers (posted on March 1, 2016)
Update on the Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) Program Evaluation (posted on January 11, 2016) (PDF, 118 KB)
December 21, 2015: Learner Gains Research Project to Launch in January (PDF, 46 KB)
November 18, 2015: Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework (OALCF) Milestone Portal Access (PDF, 82 KB)
October 28, 2105: 2016-2017 Service Provider Business Planning Instructions (PDF, 316 KB)
October 28, 2105: 2016-2017 Support Organization Business Plan Instructions (PDF, 176 KB)
October 23, 2015: Announcement of the LBS Program Evaluation (PDF, 225 KB)
June 19, 2015: LBS Contract Management Process (PDF, 100 KB)
May 21, 2015: 2015-2016 LBS Service Provider Sample – Auditor’s Report
May 21, 2015: 2015-2016 LBS Support Organization Sample – Auditor’s Report
May 21, 2015: Memo: Revised 2015-2016 LBS Service Provider Audit and Accountability Requirements
March 20, 2015: Revised Ontario Adult Curriculum Framework Core Document (PDF, 24 KB)
February 10, 2015: Revised Milestone 55 and Apprenticeship Goal Path Description (PDF, 82 KB)
October 8: Memo - New Culminating Tasks and Revised User Guide (PDF, 17 KB)
October 8, 2014: Memo - Employment Culminating Tasks Online for e-Channel Administration (PDF, 17 KB)
August 2014: Memo - Revised OALCF Milestone M-39 for one-on-one delivery (PDF, 23 KB)
Memo: Enhanced Milestones for one-on-one delivery and revised User Guide (PDF, 124 KB)
Memo: Changes made to 2014-2015 agreements for Employment Service providers for Employment Service (ES), Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS), Ontario Self Employment Benefit (OSEB), Ontario Employment Assistance Services (OEAS), Summer Jobs Service (SJS) and Local Boards (Revised on March 21, 2014) (PDF, 221 KB)
Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) 2013-2014 Business Priorities Survey Results (PDF, 463 KB)
Memo: Clarification regarding the Administration of Milestone and Culminating Task Assessments for learners accessing multiple Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) sites (PDF, 105 KB)
Important Notices

- Last Modified: 09/21/2022

Support 110 years of independent journalism.

Inside Labour’s immigration dilemma

The party might keep the Rwanda plan until it has agreed a returns policy with the EU.

By Andrew Marr

On illegal migration, Labour has a problem. It is that the government’s Rwanda scheme, however limited in numbers, expensive , damaging to Britain’s international reputation and plagued by chaos (most recently, the Home Office appears to have mislaid several thousand migrants it intended to deport), may indeed have some of the deterrent effect Rishi Sunak said it would.

Speaking to journalists last week as the bill became an act, the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, sounded ready for battle on the “humanitarian” case for the deportation flights: stopping more people from dying in the Channel. Meanwhile, interviews with would-be migrants on the French coast are starting to pick up worries about the UK’s “Africa” policy. The threat of Rwanda, according to Ireland’s tánaiste, or deputy prime minister, Micheál Martin, is causing an influx of migrants from the UK into Ireland, because people are “fearful”.

Claims by Dublin that four in five recent asylum seekers into Ireland have come via Northern Ireland may well be overstated but the political atmosphere south of the Irish border has changed as people flee the UK. “Maybe that is the impact it was designed to have,” Mr Martin said. And this is before a single plane has taken off. In narrow terms – stopping former 2019 Tory voters from defecting to Reform UK – might the policy work?

And if Labour wins, what does it then do? Polling shows that migration is not high enough up the list of key issues for swing voters to the Conservatives but on the day after an election, this becomes Labour’s problem.

On many of the key issues around migration, Labour has a good policy. And indeed, detailed polling suggests that the more voters know about Labour policies, the bigger the party’s lead on migration is. Its proposals on integrating migrants and encouraging them to take citizenship and to contribute through work and taxes are more practical and forward-looking than anything from the populist right.

The Saturday Read

Morning call.

Administration / Office
Arts and Culture
Board Member
Business / Corporate Services
Client / Customer Services
Communications
Construction, Works, Engineering
Education, Curriculum and Teaching
Environment, Conservation and NRM
Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance
Finance Management
Health - Medical and Nursing Management
HR, Training and Organisational Development
Information and Communications Technology
Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives
Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities
Legal Officers and Practitioners
Librarians and Library Management
OH&S, Risk Management
Operations Management
Planning, Policy, Strategy
Printing, Design, Publishing, Web
Projects, Programs and Advisors
Property, Assets and Fleet Management
Public Relations and Media
Purchasing and Procurement
Quality Management
Science and Technical Research and Development
Security and Law Enforcement
Service Delivery
Sport and Recreation
Travel, Accommodation, Tourism
Wellbeing, Community / Social Services

And it partly answers voters’ concerns: the Starmerite think tank Labour Together says that among voters the party needs to win over, its polling shows “a perceived lack of control over who comes here, the belief migrants take out more than they put in, and a concern newcomers to the UK do not hold British values and fail to integrate. These concerns are particularly acute at a time when housing and public services are under such obvious pressure.”

Christabel Cooper, one of the report’s authors, adds, “any migration system has to work for the benefit of those already in the UK”.

Behind the scenes, there are signs that these instincts will prompt Labour to look again at entitlement cards or ID cards, introduced by the last Labour government in 2006 but then quickly abandoned by the Tories. Despite concerns over civil liberties and practicality, identity cards could reassure voters that there are not large numbers of economic free riders.

But all of this, however, does not really touch the hottest part of the current argument – enforcement, or “stopping the boats”. At present, Labour remains committed to abandoning the Rwanda plan as soon as it takes power. Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, doesn’t quite say that she would immediately repeal the act; but she does say in clear terms that she would not use it: “ We are not going to do the Rwanda scheme .”

Instead, Labour wants to negotiate a better returns deal with France. That would involve legal migration routes from France in return for the automatic return of illegal migrants. But how long would this take? There could be a crucial period, early in the lifetime of a Starmer government when voters are judging it on competence and delivery, with no effective policy on illegal migration.

This, more than the pre-election argument, really worries senior Labour figures. Some go so far as to speculate that Labour might have to retain the Rwanda scheme until a returns policy with the EU has been agreed and signed. “We can’t just come in, tear it up, and have nothing to put in its place,” one senior adviser told me.

Given what Labour has said already about the scheme, and the feelings in the party, that would be a huge political gamble for Starmer . He has been concerned enough about the asylum dilemma to work closely with Cooper on a toughened border security strategy that will be rolled out over the summer, starting once the local elections are over.

The Cooper policy is to further intensify border security – there is an announcement coming soon – and produce an early scheme to replace Rwanda that would be cheaper, more realistic in terms of the numbers of asylum seekers involved and compliant with international law.

It certainly involves a drive for more bilateral deals with countries outside the EU on the Albanian model – for instance with Vietnam, after a sudden increase in the number of Vietnamese women migrants, some heading for nail bars and many to sex work.

The next phase of policy centres on faster processing with a big increase in case offices, followed by swifter deportation of failed asylum seekers, which would save money on accommodation in hotels, reconfigured RAF bases and barges. Cooper has been pointing out to Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, that she might be the only member of the shadow cabinet able to save her money rather than asking for more.

Beyond this, figures in the party are already exploring European policies on processing asylum claims outside the EU: in North Africa, Turkey and other jurisdictions. That includes examining this February’s Italian-Albanian agreement, under which Italy processes would-be migrants at an Albanian port. That is, to say the least, controversial: Amnesty International has condemned the Albanian scheme as illegal and unworkable.

The Rwanda story has given Labour some of its easiest and best attack lines in opposition. It isn’t at all clear yet that the policy has been a “win” for Sunak: in the brighter and calmer weather of the early summer, we can expect the boats to continue coming and the gangs to try and convince their vulnerable victims that the risk remains worth taking. But as the election draws closer, so too do hard choices for Keir Starmer and Labour.

[See also: How radical is Labour’s new rail policy, really? ]

Content from our partners

Solving the power puzzle

The UK can be a leader in pushing the aerospace sector to a sustainable future

Harnessing Europe’s green power plant

It’s no surprise Keir Starmer’s Labour took in Natalie Elphicke

What Westminster isn’t telling you about our GDP figures

Will Labour’s alternative to the Rwanda scheme work?

LIVE DISCOURSE
BLOG / OPINION
SUBMIT PRESS RELEASE
Advertisement
Knowledge Partnership
Media Partnership

UK Labour leader promises to 'smash the gangs' to tackle small boats crossings

He aimed to counter conservative attacks on labour accusing the opposition party of having no plan to tackle illegal immigration, an issue that is set to be a major battleground in a national election later this year. in a speech on the south coast of england, starmer said his policy was tough but pragmatic, telling supporters there was nothing compassionate in turning a blind eye to a business that allowed children to die in the channel..

British opposition leader Keir Starmer pledged on Friday to "smash the gangs" who bring asylum seekers to Britain in boats, saying a Labour government would hire hundreds of enforcement officials and use counterterrorism powers to target them.

Accusing the Conservative government of "gesture politics" and rubbishing its plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as a waste of money, Starmer said if in government Labour would work with European partners to break the gangs' business model. He aimed to counter Conservative attacks on Labour accusing the opposition party of having no plan to tackle illegal immigration, an issue that is set to be a major battleground in a national election later this year.

In a speech on the south coast of England, Starmer said his policy was tough but pragmatic, telling supporters there was nothing compassionate in turning a blind eye to a business that allowed children to die in the Channel. "That is my message to the smugglers - these shores will become hostile territory for you. We will find you, we will stop you, we will protect your victims, with the Border Security Command, we will secure Britain's borders," he said.

"So, I say to the British people: if I am elected to serve this country ... I will turn the page on Westminster's 'talk tough, do nothing' culture. Not just on small boats. Not just on migration. On everything," he said, after being introduced by Natalie Elphicke, the local lawmaker who defected from the Conservatives to Labour earlier in the week. He declined to set a target for getting the numbers down, but said his government would move quickly to bring in his measures and scrap a Rwanda scheme, which he described as only able to remove 1% of those crossing the Channel.

Almost eight years after Britain voted to leave the European Union to "take back control" of the country's borders, illegal migration remains a hot political issue. More than 8,000 people have arrived so far this year on small boats, with many fleeing war or famine and travelling through Europe to Britain, making the start of this year a record for such arrivals. Labour has traditionally been seen as weak on tackling immigration, and Starmer's tough speech was partly aimed at telling traditional Conservative voters they could vote for what he said was his "changed party".

Starmer, whose party looks set to win the next election according to opinion polls, said his party would create a Border Security Command that would bring together staff from the police, the domestic intelligence agency and prosecutors to work with international agencies to stop people smuggling. Labour said the hundreds of new specialist investigators, intelligence agents and cross-border police officers in this new unit would have the powers to carry out searches and to secure warrants to seize assets before an offence has taken place.

Separately on Friday, the government's Rwanda plan was dealt a blow when the interior ministry (Home Office) agreed to amend part of the published policy after a legal challenge from a human rights group. Asylum Aid said the ministry has accepted that where a asylum seeker makes a claim based on compelling evidence relating to their personal circumstances that Rwanda is not safe for them, the guidance is wrong to instruct caseworkers that they "must" still consider Rwanda to be safe when deciding whether the claim for asylum is inadmissible in the UK.

It said the ministry plans to amend the guidance to reflect this.

UK Conservative Party chairman says local election results 'not great'

Uk's conservative party suffers major setback in local elections, fueling labour's momentum.

Health News Roundup: Merck's endometrial cancer therapy fails trial; NYC sue...

China and Hungary Expand Strategic Cooperation Amidst Xi Jinping Visit

PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - May 10

Senegal Plane Fire Injures 10 as Boeing Catches Fire on Takeoff Skidding Off...

Latest news, tragic incident: minor girl succumbs to injuries after stone-pelting in rajouri, jammu and kashmir, sean 'diddy' combs asks judge to dismiss 'false' claim that he, others raped 17-year-old girl, -israel orders residents from more east rafah areas to evacuate, priyanka gandhi urges pm modi to emulate indira gandhi's leadership qualities.

OPINION / BLOG / INTERVIEW

Green metropolises: navigating the path to sustainable urban growth globally, the creative frontier: unleashing potential with generative ai, customized minds: the ai revolution in learning and behavioral change, transformative strategies for high-density cities, connect us on.

ADVERTISEMENT
KNOWLEDGE PARTNERSHIP
MEDIA PARTNERSHIP
Agro-Forestry
Art & Culture
Economy & Business
Energy & Extractives
Law & Governance
Science & Environment
Social & Gender
Urban Development
East and South East Asia
Europe and Central Asia
Central Africa
East Africa
Southern Africa
West Africa
Middle East and North Africa
North America
Latin America and Caribbean

OTHER PRODUCTS

Email: [email protected] Phone: +91-720-6444012, +91-7027739813, 14, 15

Politics latest: Keir Starmer accused of 'rank hypocrisy' by Rishi Sunak after setting out what he'll do to tackle small boat crossings

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer lays out his party's plans to try and tackle small boat crossings if it wins power. Listen to the latest episode of the Electoral Dysfunction podcast as you scroll.

Friday 10 May 2024 18:30, UK

Starmer says small boat crossings 'one of the greatest challenges we face'
Explained: What's in Labour's plan to try and tackle problem
Darren McCaffrey: Will Labour's plan cut it with voters?
Starmer says no flights to Rwanda will take off under Labour
Sunak accuses Starmer of 'rank hypocrisy'
Electoral Dysfunction: Jess Phillips says Elphicke defection like 'being punched in gut'
UK exits recession | Economy 'returning to full health'
Faultlines: Can British farming survive?
Live reporting by Tim Baker

Across the UK, anger is brewing amongst some farmers.

Protests have already been held in London, Dover and Cardiff, with more planned - mirroring similar tensions seen across Europe in the last six months.

They say they’re annoyed about cheap foreign imports and changes to subsidies forcing them to give up land in favour of environmental schemes.

But what does this mean for the food on our table - and does British produce risk becoming a luxury product for the wealthy only?

On the Sky News Daily , Niall Paterson is joined by West of England and Wales correspondent Dan Whitehead to find out why farmers are so concerned, and speaks to Liz Webster, the founder of Save British Farming, about why she believes eating British isn't just good for our farmers - it's good for the nation's health, too.

In response to our report, Farming Minister Mark Spencer, said: "We firmly back our farmers. British farming is at the heart of British trade, and we put agriculture at the forefront of any deals we negotiate, prioritising new export opportunities, protecting UK food standards and removing market access barriers.

"We've maintained the £2.4bn annual farming budget and recently set out the biggest ever package of grants which supports farmers to produce food profitably and sustainably."

The Welsh government said: "A successful future for Welsh farming should combine the best of our traditional farming alongside cutting-edge innovation and diversification.

"It will produce the very best of Welsh food to the highest standards, while safeguarding our precious environment and addressing the urgent call of the climate and nature emergencies."

👉 Listen above then tap here to follow the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts 👈

Following the defection of the Dover and Deal MP Natalie Elphicke to Labour, Beth, Ruth and Jess discuss the surprise move and whether it could have been handled differently by Sir Keir Starmer.

They also talk about Beth's interview with the former immigration minister Robert Jenrick and his warnings about Reform UK.

Plus, how significant was the defeat of former Conservative mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street? Beth and Jess were both there to tell the story.

And they answer a question on Labour and the Muslim vote, and what the party can do to restore confidence and trust.

Email Beth, Jess, and Ruth at [email protected] , post on X to @BethRigby, or send a WhatsApp voice note on 07934 200 444.

👉 Listen above then tap here to follow Electoral Dysfunction wherever you get your podcasts 👈

In January 2023, Rishi Sunak made five promises.

Since then, he and his ministers have rarely missed an opportunity to list them. In case you haven't heard, he promised to:

• Halve inflation • Grow the economy • Reduce debt • Cut NHS waiting lists and times • Stop the boats

See below how he is doing on these goals:

The Sky News live poll tracker - collated and updated by our Data and Forensics team - aggregates various surveys to indicate how voters feel about the different political parties.

With the local elections complete, Labour is still sitting comfortably ahead, with the Tories trailing behind.

See the latest update below - and you can read more about the methodology behind the tracker here .

Speaking to Sky political editor Beth Rigby , Sir Keir Starmer has defended his decision to allow Tory MP Natalie Elphicke into Labour.

Ms Elphicke was on the right of the Conservative spectrum, and previously defended her sex-offender ex-husband, comments which she apologised for this week following her defection.

Addressing Tory voters, Sir Keir says he wants Labour to be a "place where they who have ambitions about their families, their communities, their country, can join and be part of what we are trying to build for their country".

Asked by Beth if he was ruthless, Sir Keir said: "Yes, I'm ruthless in trying to ensure we have a Labour government that can change this country for the better.

"Not ruthless for my own ambition, not ruthlessness particularly for the Labour Party - I'm ruthless for the country.

"The only way we'll bring about a change in this country is if we're ruthless about winning that general election and putting in place a government of public service, that’ll be a major change.

"Politics, I believe, should be about public service, that's what I've been about all my life."

More now from political editor Beth Rigby's interview with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.

She reminded him that he previously ruled out doing a deal with the SNP - but has not done so for the Liberal Democrats.

Sir Keir again ruled out a coalition with the SNP - adding that he is aiming for a "majority Labour government".

He says Labour needs "to keep working hard, keep disciplined and getting our message across, which is something fundamental to me".

Pushed on his lack of ruling out a possible agreement with the Lib Dems, Sir Keir says: "I'm going for a majority.

"That's the answer I gave you a year ago. It's the same answer I'm giving you now."

Sir Keir Starmer was earlier today pushed on whether Rwanda deportation flights will take off if he was prime minister - although it was not clear if he would cancel flights which had already been organised.

Sky News understood that previously booked deportation flights to Rwanda would still go ahead if Sir Keir entered Number 10.

But the Labour leader has now gone further.

Speaking to political editor Beth Rigby , Sir Keir has ruled out any flights taking off.

"There will be no flights scheduled or taking off after general election if Labour wins that general election," he says.

He says: "Every flight that takes off carries with it a cheque to the Rwanda government.

"So I want to scrap the scheme - so that means the flights won't be going."

Sir Keir says he would rather spend the money on his own measures to counter small boats.

"No flights, no Rwanda scheme. It's a gimmick," he says.

By Alix Culbertson , political reporter

Scotland's new first minister has told Sky News that the controversial gender recognition reforms "cannot be implemented."

John Swinney, who became first minister this week , has faced questions over his stance on gender recognition after MSPs voted in 2022 to pass a bill to make it simpler for people to change their gender without having to obtain a medical diagnosis.

The UK government blocked the bill from being made into law and the Supreme Court rejected a request by the Scottish government for a judicial review.

Asked if he would be fighting to push the bill through, Mr Swinney told Sky News: "The reality of the situation we face is that the Supreme Court has said that we can't legislate in that area. We can't take forward that legislation."

The UK economy is no longer in recession, according to official figures.

Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a better-than-expected 0.6% between January and March, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

Economists had predicted the figure would be 0.4%.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it showed the economy had "turned a corner".

He told Sky News's Ed Conway: "I am pleased that while there's more work to do, today's figures show that the economy now has real momentum, and I'm confident that with time, people will start to feel the benefits of that.

"We've had multiple months now where wages are rising, energy bills have fallen, mortgage rates are down and taxes are being cut... I'm pleased with the progress that we're making."

Mr Sunak added: "I am confident the economy is getting healthier every week."

You can read more here:

Rishi Sunak has criticised Sir Keir Starmer's position on Rwanda as "rank hypocrisy".

Speaking to broadcasters, the prime minister says the Labour leader has announced things the government is "already doing".

He gives the example of "punching through the backlog, having more law enforcement officers do more, that's all happening already".

"We've announced all of that more than a year ago," the prime minister adds.

"The question for Keir Starmer if he cares so much about that, why did he vote against the new laws that we passed to give our law enforcement officers new powers?

"They've now used those to arrest almost 8,000 people connected with illegal migration, sentenced them to hundreds of years in prison.

"And if it was up to him, all those people would be out on our streets, so I think it's rank hypocrisy property of his position."

Be the first to get Breaking News

Install the Sky News app for free

IMAGES

FREE 9+ Immigration Business Plan Samples in PDF
Why immigration business plans Are Crucial for Immigration Purposes?
FAQ: Immigration Business Plan for L-1s and E-2 Investors Visas
Immigration Business Plan #101: What Is It?
FREE 9+ Immigration Business Plan Samples in PDF
Business Plan For Your Immigration Procedure (for Work Permit)

COMMENTS

Labour and Immigration business plan
Description. As part of the Government of Alberta's commitment to be open and accountable to the public, all ministries are required to prepare and make public ministry business plans. The ministry business plan encompasses the department and all consolidated entities, and aligns with the strategic direction of the Government of Alberta.
PDF BUSINESS PLAN
Labour, Skills and Immigration Annual Plan 2022-23 2 MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER We are pleased to present the 2022-23 Business Plan for the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration (LSI). Nova Scotia now has a population of more than one million strong, and we continue to grow each day.
Government of Alberta business plans
2022-25 Business plans. The following documents were released with Budget 2022: Government of Alberta Strategic Plan. Ministry Business Plans - Complete Volume. Ministry Business Plan Reader's Guide. Advanced Education. Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic Development. Children's Services. Community and Social Services.
An Immigration Plan to Grow the Economy
November 1, 2022—Toronto—The Canadian economy has experienced one of the fastest recoveries from COVID-19 among advanced economies, but is now facing critical labour market shortages causing uncertainty for Canadian businesses and workers. Today the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, released Canada's 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan.
New immigration plan to fill labour market shortages and grow Canada's
This is a clear sign that we have a strong economic need for increased immigration. To ensure Canada has the workers it needs to fill critical labour market gaps and support a strong economy into the future, the 2022-2024 Immigration Levels Plan aims to continue welcoming immigrants at a rate of about 1% of Canada's population, including ...
It's hoped Canada's immigration plan will boost the workforce. But how
The federal government says its immigration plan will help Canadian businesses find people needed in key sectors, including in health care, building trades, manufacturing, and science, technology ...
Business and the Workforce
Business and the Workforce. Our legal system rests upon the principle that everyone is entitled to due process of law and a meaningful opportunity to be heard. But for far too long, the immigration system has failed to provide noncitizens with a system of justice that lives up to this standard. Learn about ways in which the immigration system ...
Labour's immigration and border policy: How we'll create a fair system
Here's what Labour will do on immigration. 1) Introduce new training plans and requirements for key occupations - including a workforce plan and a Fair Pay Agreement for adult social care. 2) Reform the apprenticeship levy to support upskilling and skilling in key shortage areas including construction, IT and engineering.
PDF Labour, Skills and Immigration
Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration 2023-24 Priority Actions in Support of Government's Business Plan The Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration (LSI) works as a trusted partner to . grow the province's population, develop our current and future workforce, and foster inclusive, safe . and fair workplaces.
Business plan 2022 to 2023: Department of Labour, Skills and
The Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration's plans and priorities for the 2022 to 2023 fiscal year. This plan describes the mandate, priorities and responsibilities of the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration. Information includes: This document may not be fully accessible if you're using assistive technology.
What are Labour's new migration plans?
What are Labour's new migration plans? Keir Starmer is on tour to discuss solutions to the migration crisis, including meetings with Europol and Emmanuel Macron. Keir Starmer has been revealing ...
Labour to tackle immigration by ending foreign workers' lower pay
A Labour government would restrict the flow of foreign workers into Britain by ending the current rules allowing companies to pay migrant labour just 80 per cent of the usual rate for a job in ...
L-1 & E-2 Visas: The Need of a Immigration Business Plan
Conclusion. A detailed and well-structured immigration business plan is pivotal to your L-1 or E-2 visa application. It demonstrates your commitment and capability to operate a successful business in the U.S. and how your venture will positively impact the economy. By thoroughly addressing each of these components, your business plan will stand ...
How New Labour made Britain into a migration state
Under Blair's Labour government, Britain's economic immigration policy went from a highly restrictive approach to one of the most expansive in Europe, as I examined in . Work permit criteria ...
We must wean economy off immigration, Labour leader warns businesses
The days of "cheap labour" must end to wean the UK off its "immigration dependency", Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has told business leaders. Sir Keir called for a plan to train British workers ...
The crucial missing piece of Labour's immigration plan
The crucial missing piece of Labour's immigration plan The most effective way to stop the boats would be to open safe and legal routes to claim asylum May 2, 2024 2:42 pm (Updated 2:50 pm )
Business plan 2023 to 2024: Department of Labour, Skills and
The Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration's plans and priorities for the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year. This plan describes the mandate, priorities and responsibilities of the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration. Information includes: This document may not be fully accessible if you're using assistive technology.
Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS)-LBS Updates
Employment Ontario 2024-25 Business Plan Template Release in EOIS-SP Connect (posted on November 27, 2023) (PDF, ... Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Name Update (posted on September 9, 2022) (PDF, ... Business Day Definition and Public Holidays (posted on March 29, 2022) (PDF, ...
Inside Labour's immigration dilemma
Labour. 30 April 2024. Inside Labour's immigration dilemma. The party might keep the Rwanda plan until it has agreed a returns policy with the EU. By Andrew Marr. Photo by Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP. On illegal migration, Labour has a problem. It is that the government's Rwanda scheme, however limited in numbers, expensive, damaging to Britain ...
UK Labour leader promises to 'smash the gangs' to tackle ...
He aimed to counter Conservative attacks on Labour accusing the opposition party of having no plan to tackle illegal immigration, an issue that is set to be a major battleground in a national election later this year. In a speech on the south coast of England, Starmer said his policy was tough but pragmatic, telling supporters there was nothing compassionate in turning a blind eye to a ...
Politics latest: Keir Starmer sets out what he'll do to tackle small
Follow live updates as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer sets out his party's plans to try and tackle small boat crossings if it wins power.