What's the situation with the India deal

[Springswallow]

I'm not massively understanding it
But why is labour making it better for business to employ someone from India that the UK .
Does this mean one person being employed from India can bring the family over to live here ?
Is this likely to have a huge impact on employment in UK

What is the motivation behind asking this question? And where are you getting your information from?

Very good questions. It would have helped if the OP had put a link.

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I’m not too happy about it. A friend of mine is being made redundant as all the work has shifted to India.

I looked at the details when Starmer released the information -or his press office did . Always go to the source.

I couldn't see the benefit for us
Unless you believe that there is a massive shortage of skilled IT workers in particular areas

I don't know enough to know whether or not this is true

but it certainly isn't something that benefits us in a kind of daily impact way

If he's got his eye on global competitiveness etc then maybe it does? But given that lots of skilled IT professionals seem to be out of work, I'm quite confused. As time goes on, it just looks like another inexplicable thing he's done.

I couldn't see the benefit either

The UK trade deal with India does not it better for business to employ someone from India than the UK . Thats just GBNews bollocks

Jobs have been shifted to India for decades and they should do something about that if they can as there are plenty of people in the UK looking for work.

Why do you think that?

Even the Legal 500 has published on this. If there's no NI applicable to the employee, then the business saves that cost.

https://www.legal500.com/developments/thought-leadership/the-uk-india-trade-deal-and-how-it-will-affect-the-ability-of-indians-to-live-and-work-in-the-uk/

This article is from August last year. I'm not a big fan of AI search results. But even omitting those, search results say that if you employ somebody under that scheme, you don't have to pay employers NI, which is a significant cost.

I'm happy to be corrected if you have information which says that the British employee and the Indian employee now cost exactly the same.