The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published a report recommending the abolition of the Shortage Occupation List (SOL).
- In the interim, the MAC has recommended including only eight occupations on the SOL and a further two occupations on the Scotland-only SOL.
- The MAC also recommends that, while the SOL continues, the going rate discount for occupations on the list should be removed; that asylum seekers be given the right to work in any job, not just in occupations on the SOL; and that the Creative Worker (CW) visa route be opened up to any occupation without a labour market test.
- The MAC also recommends that, if the SOL is retained, the Government changes the name of the SOL to the Immigration Salary Discount List (ISDL) to correctly reflect its function in the immigration system.
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