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Fuel retailers said the government's push to switch to more environmentally friendly petrol was a "major factor" in last month's fuel crisis.

Fuel retailers said the government's push to switch to more environmentally friendly petrol was a "major factor" in last month's fuel crisis.

Protect the industry. and on the pig farmers, some in government are arguing that that problem could be fixed relatively easily by relaxing the english language requirements around certain visas, allowing people to come in from abroad and fill the vacancies to clear the backlog. the trouble is that wouldnt sit easily on the solution which one minister described to me as politically difficult with boris johnsons big theme right now, which is making the uk economy less reliant on foreign labour. d...

On foreign labour. as one minister put it to me, that would be politically difficult right now. downing street has drafted in a senior industry figure to be a new supply chain adviser, sir david lewis. the former tesco boss will advise boris johnson lewis. the former tesco boss will advise borisjohnson and others on how to fix these problems in the short and longer term. but i am told we should not expect any big changes in the government approach and downing street is willing for the sectors of...

The UK does not have to rely on "cheap" products from China if it invests in British workers and industry, Sir Iain Duncan Smith said.

Delays and stop-work orders because of COVID-19 shows this is the right time to re-think the way we do business, says labour economist, Kelvin Seah.

Heavy burden: Piling machines are seen operating at a construction site in Singapore. The barring of workers from South Asia has added to the manpower shortage in Singapore’s construction industry. — AFP SINGAPORE: A small army of about 380 construction workers should be hammering away as the luxury condominium Meyer House nears completion, but the shortfall in foreign labour has left the site with just 230 men on the job. Shortages are just one of the challenges facing main contractor Unis...

5 Mar 2021 Hundreds of thousands of native British nursing candidates have been rejected over the past decade, while the government made it easier to bring in cheaper nurses from abroad, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed. The report, which was seen by Breitbart London, said that even during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic last year, over 23,000 British applications for nursing courses were rejected, despite the government offering 1,200 fast-tracked Health and Care Worker visas to f...

KULAI: The foreign worker hiring freeze for the plantations and commodities sector will only be lifted after Malaysia successfully controls the Covid-19 pandemic, says Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali. The Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister said that among the factors that would be taken into consideration are the ability of companies in providing lodging that will adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) on Covid-19. He said the government’s present policy in freezi...