Labour's Huge Betrayal Of U K Workers.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-local-elections-labour-reform-starmer-farage-tories-lib-dems-greens-12593360

Indians and their employers exempt from NI! Un effing believable.

[Clone]

Aye, can't wait for the usuals to defend this.

[Clone]

Still, if I decide to go to India to work for 50 rupees ph, I will be exempt too.

[Buenchico]

The agreement only mirrors the existing ones that the UK has with the EU, USA, Japan and 14 other countries, most (all?) of which were negotiated and signed into effect by the Tories.

[jno]

it's for temporary work assignments. And it's reciprocal.

[TheChair]

This only applies to Indian workers who are seconded to the UK from a company based in India on a short term basis. India nationals applying for jobs based in the UK will not benefit from this convention and it does not disadvantage UK workers

[Clone]

It must be a significant number for India to insist upon it being part of the deal. 

I won't be surprised if there's a loophole and migration from India goes even higher than the already ludicrous numbers.

[gramps85]

Has any other UK Political Party set about committing political suicide in a way as this lot.  Cut WFA, raise NI, taken feebies galore, allowed illegal's to enter the country unchecked in increasing numbers, and now making cheaper to employ workers from India then it is to employ British workers. Is it any wonder that a party, such as Reform, that puts this country first is doing so well in by-elections, council elections and are riding so high in the opinion polls?

[Old_Geezer]

Doesn't sound wonderful given it acts as an incentive to draw in more foreign workers instead of locals, especially at a time when we are concerned about excessive numbers of incomers. However any agreed deal is likely to contain bits that are less popular/beneficial. (Especially since many nations (deliberately ?) confuse a trade deal with an immigration deal. In some ways it could have been a lot worse than three years grace.

 

So if they aren't to pay NI does that mean they are exempt from receiving the benefits NI pays for ?  We'll just have to see how it pans out. If it proves to be a loophole to use cheap labour then maybe rules on immigration and looking for suitable British employees first could be tightened up without affecting the NI concession.

[douglas9401]

Top balloon bursting up there. ^

[New Judge]

"This only applies to Indian workers who are seconded to the UK from a company based in India on a short term basis."

I wonder how short that term will be?

Once here, the worker may decide that it's a little more pleasant than some slum on the outskirts of Delhi or Bombay. 

Still, at least we will be able to buy some cheap shoes.

[Clone]

Has anyone thanked Trump yet?

 

[ToraToraTora]

have a go at this one:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1895149.html

 

[THECORBYLOON]

"I wonder how short that term will be?" It's up to three year.

[New Judge]

"It's up to three year."

No, what I meant, Corby, was how long would it really be. Not how long would a visa or work permit or whatever was granted would last.

The largest group of unauthorised migrants in the UK are those who were granted short-term permission to be here and where that permission lapsed without them leaving. There are various estimates of the numbers but common amongst them is the fact that they eclipse, by a considerable factor, the numbers arriving irregularly by small boat.

This country has no satisfactory way of ensuring that those required to leave do so and an even less satisfactory regime for removing them when they are discovered to have overstayed. This new scheme opens the door to yet another cohort of people many of whom, once here, are very unlikely to leave if they don’t want to.

So the three year limitation might just as well be thirty years or a hundred years.

[Untitled]

if you voted for brexit you voted for this

[Untitled]

i seem to remember brexiters fantasizing about the uk wheeling and dealing around the globe, cutting deals and doing business and all that rubbish. 
 

well it's here now and you don't like it!!

[ToraToraTora]

11:46 we voted for better interaction with the non EUSSR world. Not to get tub cuffed on prime time by Tool and the gang.

[THECORBYLOON]

NJ I was not referring to the duration of a work permit or visa.

"Double Contributions  Condution (DCC)

Alongside the FTA, the UK and India have agreed to negotiate a reciprocal DCC. The DCC will support business and trade by ensuring that employees moving between the UK and India, and their employers, will only be liable to pay social security contributions in one country at a time. The DCC will also ensure that employees temporarily working in the other country for up to 3 years will continue paying social security contributions in their home country, preventing the fragmentation of their social security record." [Emphasis added]

[jno]

it means Indians on short-term projects here won't have to be taxed twice on their earnings. And Britons on similar assignments in India won't have to either.

What a huge betrayal!

 

[youngmafbog]

I wonder how many Britons will be heading to India for 2 Rupees an hour?

The devil will be in the detail of course and that will take a while to work through so just have to wait and see.