As providers of free employment legal advice to hundreds of construction workers, we have sought to address this gap.

We found that construction is poorly suited to the rigidity of sponsorship, where bogus self-employment and non-payment of wages is rife.

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Here’s how Labour can hire the migrant labour needed to help build 300,000 new homes every year, without putting workers at risk of exploitation. 5/5

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It’s also good to see the MAC acknowledge the necessity of making the Skilled Worker visa more flexible, so that workers can more easily switch between employers.

Every worker deserves the right to leave a bad employer to take their work to one that needs and values them. 4/5

We have warned the Home Office that construction is not suited to sponsorship.

Construction workers often work irregular hours for contractors where oversight of conditions is lax. (Much like the care sector where rampant exploitation went unchecked)

And it looks like the MAC agrees with us. 3/5

Plasterers, floorers, tilers, and painters have been identified as ‘potentially crucial to prioritised sectors’, making them eligible for sponsorship by construction companies.

🚩Migrant workers in occupations won’t have a route to settlement and won’t be able to bring dependants. 2/5