In the draft Strategic Plan lodged with the States this week, the Council of Ministers have pledged to grant licences only for non-qualified workers where it will deliver ‘sizable economic or social value’ and where no local workers are available.
All other applications will be rejected and companies will instead be given help recruiting locally qualified staff. The move follows repeated calls from Islanders to control immigration after last year’s census revealed that Jersey’s population had soared to 97,857.
• Full story in Tuesday’s JEP.
