Laws on non-EU workers will not be changed just so Domino's Pizza can keep wages low.

[dipsydoodle]

The immigration minister, Mark Harper, has hit back at employers who say they have to recruit foreign workers from outside Europe to fill low-paid jobs by telling them they should offer better wages.

Harper said that Lance Batchelor, the chief executive of Domino's Pizza, should reflect on the salaries he was offering if he could not fill 1,000 vacancies without recruiting unskilled staff from outside Europe.

The immigration minister told the Commons home affairs select committee: "He should probably pay his staff a little more and he might find them easier to recruit. It's a market."

Harper said that the government would not change the law to make it easier to recruit unskilled labour from outside Europe "just so he can keep his wages low".

Batchelor complained earlier this week that his pizza takeaway and delivery chain was struggling to get enough employees, especially in London and the south-east.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/10/immigration-harper-higher-wages-recruit-eu-workers

Anyone here from Kent ? - Batchelor from the sound of it.

[diabeticman]

1. Wish our law makers and laws had such support for labor

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Good to see a Tory telling a businessman what the free market means (nt)

[msongs]

3. supply and demand only applies to customers, not employers nt

[Benton D Struckcheon]

4. Wow.

Here we have Republicans apologizing to BP for holding them responsible for the Gulf spill.
There you have Tories telling off businessmen looking for a way to make a buck on a changed law.
Amazing difference.

[LeftishBrit]

5. Actually, knowing what Mark Harper is like...

he would probably get on pretty well with your Republicans. In this case, it's probably just that he hates immigrants even more than he hates poor British people.

Nonetheless, even a stopped clock, etc....