If companies have to advertise in the UK for 4 weeks they will simply post an advert on Jobserve with no contact telephone number. After 4 weeks they will say that no one in the whole of the UK had the skills and simply employ a cheap overseas inexperienced IT worker.

plenty of jobs in medical coding, get your degree in medical coding and get a job in medical billing. it is easy and i did it myself at http://bit.ly/14YX8y

Surely a skilled worker would be one who can command the national minimum wage. 17-20K in the IT world is that for a junior position or one for someone during training. If we are saying that there are skilled roles that nobody can logically do so much you have to go out of the country then they should at least be paying the national average wage if not greater. Lets provide an incentive for UK businesses to train and develop the staff they have before getting someone else from a non EU country.

"[Ann] Swain [Chief Executive of Association of Professional Staffing Companies] said that [...] employers should be coerced into working with professional UK staffing organisations [such as the ones she represents, presumably?] as they seek to fill roles."

Thats all you need to know about this story, right there.

LOL @ the bnp supporter posting above. Immigrants and cheap labour has kept Britain at the forefront of the world economy even despite the recession. France, Germany and many EU countries still can't compete because they can not get cheap labour.

... Labour will solve the energy crisis by building hydro power plants atop Ben Nevis and solar fields in the Peak Caves...

..stupid, stupid, stupid...welcome to UK