Business and Other Briefings
HO: The Migration Advisory Committee has advised that the Shortage Occupation List be revised to restrict migrants from outside the European Economic Area to a smaller proportion of occupations within the UK labour market. It recommends the list be reduced to cover 190,000 employees (not migrants) or well under 1% of the UK workforce. In 2008, before the MAC recommended changes to it, that list covered over 1m employees.
HSE: Businesses are being reminded about new incident reporting arrangements which were introduced on Monday 12 September. Only fatal & major injuries and incidents will be able to be reported by phone to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), with all other work-related injuries and incidents reportable under RIDDOR to be reported via one of a suite of 7 online forms available on HSE's website.
Amendments to VAT legislation consequential to the implementation of the Postal Services Act 2011.
