"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 09:11:54 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017,
tim... remarked:

While I agree that many retired ex-pats will be forced to return to the
UK and thus mop up quite a bit of the £350m extra Boris promised the
NHS, there are also a lot of expats in paying jobs in the EU. The place
I was attached to in the Netherlands a few years back had perhaps a
quarter of the staff (highly qualified) recruited from the UK out of the
100 permanent employees.

I think you've just described exactly why they wont be sent back.

Just how are they going to find suitably qualified local replacements for
25% of their workforce, all to start "tomorrow".

There's a lot of churn in IT jobs, and while things won't change
*overnight* they may find it a lot harder to recruit Brits if those Brits
need a work permit.

I'm sure that if they need them it wont be that hard.

On my last gig there was an America freelancer. They jumped through the
hoops to get her on board as it was "necessary".

Though it's agreed that Brits will no longer be first port of call. But if
the current need of, for instance, German automotive companies (that is
where the demand for engineers is ATM) cannot be met locally (EU) they will
offer the positions to Brits and do the paperwork. The German government
knows that they need these people so will make sure that the paperwork isn't
too onerous. (IME the local Workers Council put up far more barriers to
employing freelance workers in the first place than the government do for
employing a non-EU citizen.)

I fell sure that you can make the same argument for commercial IT people in
Benelux (on nothing other than a hunch).

Though if it's Spain or Portugal, where overall demand for professional
staff is lower than local supply, they wont be making it easy.

tim