UK tighten entry regulations for migrant workers.

Great Britain plans to tighten the rules of entry for migrants from countries outside the EU. In particular, qualified first level must now be a master's degree, not bachelor's, to get a job in the UK. In addition, they will be guaranteed a minimum salary of 20 thousand pounds a year, reportedly at the site boundary of Great Britain.
According to the newspaper The Guardian, in the case of the introduction of new rules from April the number of foreign migrants' qualifications will fall from 26 thousand to 14 thousand people. British government will also tighten the requirements for migrant workers a second level of qualification: a special government commission will consider that such migrants granted work only in industries where there is a shortage of personnel. If these measures are implemented, the number of labor migrants, the second level of qualification reduced from 80 thousand to 20-40 thousand per year.
All these measures relate only to immigrants from countries outside the European Union, which operates a single space for the labor market. Presented a new Interior Minister of Great Britain Jackie Smith explained that in a recession the immigration laws should be reviewed to ensure that British citizens a priority in getting jobs. In this regard, employers will be obliged to publish vacancy announcements for the second skill level of local employment centers at least two weeks.
The British labor market is estimated at about 30 million jobs. Number of foreign workers and professionals in the UK is 3.8 million, which, as noted by the newspaper The Daily Telegraph, this figure increased by 1.8 million over the past ten years.
In the face of deepening economic crisis and rising unemployment, the British trade unions need to give priority to the right of citizens to obtain employment. In opposition Conservatives also criticized the overly liberal in their view, the order of receipt of foreigners working in Britain, offering to replace quotas on migrant workers' existing system of qualifying points.