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		<title>Immigration Cap Will Not Stop Intra-Company Transfers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coalition recently announced an immigration cap which has been met with some criticism. Now the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has stated that the cap will do little to reduce the number of non-EU IT workers who come to the UK. This is because the cap proposed by the government is exclusive of the intra-company transfer scheme which allows companies to transfer in workers from bases they have in other countries if that worker has skills which are not available in the UK.]]></description>
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		<title>Government Responds to ICT Petition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government have formally responded to the Intra Company Transfer petition. Their message is that the scheme does not allow cheap migrant workers to be employed in place in UK workers. The petition aimed to highlight the unfair use of the scheme and called for its abolition by the Prime Minister.]]></description>
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		<title>Government Tightens &#8216;Intra Company Transfer&#8217; Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['Intra Company Transfer' work permits have received much negative press of late owing to their reputation for displacing skilled workers, including IT contractors. The government is being advised on this issue by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)  but is choosing to take a tougher stance than the MAC is recommending. They have advised that all that is required is for the existing rules to be more stringently enforced. However, the government have over-ridden this advice and decided to ban the use of ICT to replace a UK worker.]]></description>
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