Evening Standard:
Brexit news latest: official migration report finds EU workers CAN be better than British
27 March 2018
Unveiling the report, the Migration Advisory Committee’s chairman, Professor Alan Manning said that recommendations on the post-Brexit immigration system would be published in the autumn. These would be based on the benefits of migration to existing residents as well as the needs of employers. He added, however, that some businesses had expanded more because of migration and that the jobs created “would not have been there” if the EU workers had not been available.
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Guardian
Cutting EU migration very likely to hit growth – official advisers
Restricting immigration from Europe after Brexit is very likely to lead to lower growth in total jobs and in the output of the UK economy, the government’s official migration advisers have said. … However, the migration advisory committee (MAC), whose members are appointed by the home secretary, says cutting EU migration will “not necessarily mean lower growth in output per head, which is most closely connected to living standards”. … The MAC’s chair, Prof Alan Manning, said nothing in the interim report should be used to pre-judge the committee’s conclusions on the impact of EU migration on wages, unemployment, prices or the provision of public services. “Some think a greater sense of urgency is needed, that action is needed now,” said Manning. “We do understand the importance of migration policy, but coming to the right, rather than a rushed conclusion is what matters. Our work is for a system coming into force in 2021.”
Daily Mail
Businesses in ALL sectors fear the loss of migrant workers after Brexit because they can offer better skills at lower costs, Government is warned
Migration Advisory Committee chairman Professor Alan Manning said firms were reluctant to sign up to any reforms which reduced the pool of qualified candidates for vacancies.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5548895/Businesses-sectors-fear-loss-migrant-workers.html
Belfast Telegraph
Employers hire migrants because they are more motivated than UK workers – report
Publishing an interim update on Tuesday, MAC chairman Professor Alan Manning said employers in all sectors are “concerned about the prospects of future restrictions on EEA migration”. The review set out a summary of the views expressed by employers. Many suggested that EEA migrants are “more motivated and flexible than UK-born workers” – including a greater willingness to work longer and unsociable hours, to welcome overtime and show a “consistently strong work ethic”.
Relocate Magazine
Brexit migration curbs would ‘very likely’ hit output –MAC report
Alan Manning, professor of labour economics at the London School of Economics, who chairs the group, said that the evidence submitted to the MAC showed that the vast majority of employers do not deliberately seek to fill vacancies with migrant workers.
AOL.co.uk
Employers hire migrants because they are more motivated than UK workers – report
Publishing an interim update on Tuesday, MAC chairman Professor Alan Manning said employers in all sectors are "concerned about the prospects of future restrictions on EEA migration".
Bloomberg
U.K. employers concerned about Brexit migration restrictions
“Some sectors are struggling now to recruit and retain EEA workers,’’ Alan Manning, chair of the Migration Advisory Committee and a professor at the London School of Economics, told reporters. “Those problems have arisen really without any change, as yet, to migration policy. Migrants have a choice, particularly under free movement, and it can’t be assumed that they will come to the U.K. just because we or an employer wants them to.”
Guardian
Brexit Britain, beware: the supply of Europeans is drying up
But perhaps the most important point – often ignored in this debate, but made by Alan Manning, the Mac’s chairman, in his foreword to this report: “Migrants have a choice and it cannot be taken for granted they will choose to come to the UK.”