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Government urged to rethink skilled worker wage threshold

Meat sector leaders say industry will be hit hard as salaries rise by 49 per cent

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Meat industry leaders have urged Home Secretary James Cleverly to rethink the sector wage policy
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Meat industry leaders have urged Home Secretary James Cleverly to rethink the sector wage policy

A group of meat industry leaders have demanded a Government rethink on its proposed ‘one-size-fits-all' UK immigration policy which they say will double wages and cause ‘untold' damage to the meat sector....

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