'Some 30,000 UK foreign nurses face job cut over Tory law'
Some 30,000 foreign nurses in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) face layoffs over the Conservative government’s immigrant laws.
British media reports say non-EU staff on less than £35,000 after six years in the country are to be kicked out in line with the law.
The NHS, which is already reeling from pressures imposed over government cuts, faces further turmoil if the foreign nurses' jobs are slashed.
The Royal College of Nursing says, “This will cause NHS chaos.”
This is while Jos Bell, NHS campaigner & chair of the Socialist Health Association, in London has criticized the planned law, saying many nurses do not earn such a salary.
"Migrant nurses are generally very popular with patients as they give excellent care, if they are sent home, it will leave a dangerous gap," she added.
Bell also noted that the UK has understaffed hospitals as a result of government cuts to training and redundancies.
Meantime, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Peter Carter said, "The immigration rules will cause chaos for the NHS and other care services…at a time when demand is increasing, the UK is perversely making it harder to employ staff from overseas…It can't be morally or ethically right but will also have a huge impact on the ability of the health service to carry on in the way it has."
A Home Office spokesman believes, “As the prime minister has made clear, the government wants to reduce the demand for migrant labour…we changed the settlement rules in 2011 to break the link between coming to work in the UK and staying here permanently."
Labour's Shadow Health Minister Andrew Gwynne slammed the government’s cuts and austerity policies as the reason why NHS hospitals seek to hire foreign nurses. He said the government’s cuts to nursing had left the NHS with "no option but to recruit from overseas or hire expensive agency nurses."
Immigration played a key part in the recent general election campaign. The anti-immigrant UKIP party was left with only one MP. As a result, Labour lurched to the right on immigration to try and claw back some of its support. Now with the EU referendum just around the corner, analysts are predicting more anti-migrant policies from the Tories.
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