Shapps in talks to offer emergency visas to EU workers to tackle airports chaos

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Plans are being discussed to issue baggage handlers and check-in staff with temporary visas similar to those issued to fruit pickers, musicians and religious figures

Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, is exploring emergency action to allow an influx of foreign workers to ease the staffing crisis that is creating a summer of misery at British airports.

 

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Brexit isn’t working

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Are all these workarounds just a sticking plaster for bad policy?

They are still going to have to wait 6months for security pass es. Not very bright is he.

Europe says it has the same problem so how Will that work?

Brexit really is working isn't it!!

What do they expect airlines and airports treated staff appalling during the height of the pandemic choosing to lay them off rather than furlough. Now crying into their champers as have no staff -sucks to be you

Yes because those other jobs carry the risk of someone chucking a bomb into a plane after getting a visa they shouldnt have got and killing loads of people huh

I thought that was the idea with Brexit. Identify which sectors need staff and issue permits accordingly.

They are going to get that tax $

or just pay them more remember the so called wagon driver crisis? That got solved when the companies dug a bit deeper in their pockets

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