Red Tape Ties Up Fresh Talent Scheme Home Office Blunders and Greedy Employers Make Immigrants Shun Scotland

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IMMIGRANTS trying to take up Jack McConnell's offer of a new life in Scotland have been put off by Home Office incompetence, red tape and greedy employers.

The Home Office has "lost" more than 100 passports belonging to Polish and Czech nationals keen to work in Scotland.

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Red Tape Ties Up Fresh Talent Scheme Home Office Blunders and Greedy Employers Make Immigrants Shun Scotland

A Sunday Herald investigation has uncovered a catalogue of other complaints from wouldbe immigrants, including qualified workers not being given contracts and being forced to work illegally for lower wages, employers promising overtime but refusing to pay up and Polish au pairs being asked to pay Pounds100 (an average of two weeks' wages in Poland) to sort out ...

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