Migrant Workers. The Parties recognise the importance of promoting equality of treatment in respect of working conditions, with a view to eliminating any discrimination in respect thereof to any worker, including migrant workers legally employed in their territories.
Migrant Workers. In early summer 2007 Scottish Care began to conduct research (with funding from the Scottish Government) to look in more detail at the skills needs and nature of the workforce employed by private and voluntary providers of adult residential care services for older people. Perhaps the most surprising finding has been the numbers of non-UK nationals working within that sub-sector. At the time of writing the Stage 1 report the only available data on migrants working in the sector came from a report on the Scottish Labour Market by Futureskills Scotland (2006), which indicated that the proportion of migrants from A8 accession countries working in the care sector would be less than 5%. The Scottish Care research asked employers about migrant workers from across the EU as well as outwith it. That research covered 353 care homes for older people in Scotland, approximately 37% of all such homes, and found that the workforce within those homes included 6.1% of staff who came from an EU country other than the UK and 7.3% who were employed under a work permit. Presuming that there is no overlap at all between these groups then this would mean that 13.4%, or almost 1 in 7 of that workforce came from outside the UK. If that proportion is the same across all adult residential care services then it equates to about 6,000 workers in that sub-sector alone. The above figure is much higher than had been previously expected and as a result the SSSC has commissioned further research into the proportion of migrant workers across other parts of the sector. GEN Consulting are undertaking this research, which is also looking at the skills needs of this group of staff. The research is focussing on 5 sub-sectors, namely; adult day care; domiciliary care; early years services3; and residential child care. The final report will be available in April 2008.
Migrant Workers. 3.1. In June 2009, 12% of employers said they employed or had employed in the last six months a worker who was not a UK citizen or passport holder. This is higher than December 2008, but lower than the findings from November 2007 and June 2008 (14% and 20% respectively). The likelihood of employing non-UK workers rises with the size of firm. Only 5% of small firms (2-9 staff) employed non-UK staff in the last 6 months, compared to 71% of those with 25-99 staff, and 82% of those with 100 or more staff (74). % Companies Employing Migrant Workers 25 20 15 10 5 0 Apr 05 Mar 06 Oct 06 Apr 07 Jan 08 Aug 08 Dec 08 Jan 09 Date Surveyed % Companies Figure 5: Percentage Companies Employing Migrant Workers – Trends 2006 - 2009 Source: Employer Attitudes & Motivations to Learning & Training
