Visa clampdown on foreign workers ‘making it harder for London businesses’ as wage thresholds rise this week [Video]

Raising the salary threshold for foreign workers will make it “much harder” for London businesses struggling to employ skilled staff, experts warned on Wednesday.

The wage required for people arriving in the UK on a Skilled Worker Visa increases to £38,700, from £26,200, on Thursday (April 4).

But Mark Hilton, policy delivery director at Business LDN, warned that the government should “put the economics before the politics” and work with companies to build a fairer system.

He said: “At a time when businesses in London and across the country are struggling with acute skills shortages, raising the salary threshold at which workers can be recruited from abroad will make it much harder for firms to access the talent they need to drive growth.

“The government should put the economics before the politics by working with businesses on building an immigrationsystem which is flexible, fair and responsive, while also implementing long-term measures that help to boost the domestic pipeline of talent like reforming …