TUC response to MAC report on EEA migration
The TUC has responded to the Migration Advisory Committee report on EEA migration released in September. The TUC welcomes the report echoed a number of points that were raised by the TUC and unions in evidence submitted to their inquiry, including that there is no evidence migration has caused real wages to fall. The report recommendations endorsed several TUC policies on migration, in particular calling for the cap for non-EU skilled workers (Tier 2 in the government Points Based System) to be abolished, pay to be increased in the care sector to address labour shortages and the government to look into mechanisms to increase pay in the agriculture sector to address labour shortages.