Sunday, October 8, 2017

Brexit Mustn't Shut Door on Unskilled EU Workers, Retailers Warn

News link --> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-08/brexit-mustn-t-shut-door-on-unskilled-eu-workers-retailers-warn



The Brexit is affecting not only the non-UK citizens, but also possibly the economy of the UK. Around two-thirds of their food and drink supply chain workforce are from the countries of EU, and if they are not granted access to England, then the economy will receive fatal blow.
The ones that should be accepted are the unskilled workers. If they are not permitted to work in the United Kingdom, there will be less product choices and the prices will rise as well. Currently, the agricultural section is facing the worst situation, as they lack workers to pick up the crops to sell.
Around 83 percent of the retailers of the United Kingdom hire unskilled EU nationals to work, and 22 percent of them have lost their EU nationals.
The biggest concern is that the UK will suffer very gravely during holidays such as Christmas, as there will be shortage of employees to do the easy work. I don't know why the UK is still trying to exit the EU when they have no realistic solution towards problems such as this. This may be very minor but the workers reducing drastically in an industry that handles human necessities will affect the economy negatively in various ways.

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