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Eastern EU workers in UK 'up post-Brexit vote'

The number of workers in the UK from eight eastern European Union countries increased following the referendum, official estimates suggest.
Those from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia numbered 1,053,000 in July to September - up 46,000 on the previous quarter.
But the Office for National Statistics found a reduction in workers from other EU countries during the same period.
The Brexit vote was on 23 June.
The ONS's labour market data suggests 1,053,000 people from the group of eight states that joined the EU in 2004 - known as the A8 - were employed in the UK in July to September.
But the number of employees from 14 other EU member states - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden - showed a quarterly fall for the first time in two years, down from 944,000 to 937,000.
The number of Romanian and Bulgarian workers also dipped, from 266,000 in the previous three months to 258,000. Restrictions on people from the two countries working in the UK were lifted in January 2014.
Overall, the number of non-UK nationals from the EU, also including Cyprus, Malta and Croatia, working in the UK was 2.26 million in July to September.
This was up 221,000 compared with the equivalent period last year.
The Office for National Statistics said evidence suggested the referendum outcome had had little impact so far on the number of EU workers in the UK labour force.
Authoritative data on the flow of foreign workers would not be available until migration figures were published in February, the ONS added.

all the bloody road works have caused havoc with the day time trade.

that's official number from HO, it doesn't include self employed people... anyway how do they do that that they're coming here without any connections, not knowing anything about local labour market, not knowing even english and they're finding job very next day after arrival or at least at the end of their first week....

many employers over here ONLY employ migrant workers there are many places closed to English workers because the majority of the workforce that is eastern European refuse to work with English workers

I take it that you have evidence to back up this claim?

I live in lincolnshire it is a well known fact that this happens but not everywhere I have a customer that has worked doing window installation for 25 years but was forced to leave the firm he worked for because the mainly Polish workforce refused to work alongside him shortly afterwards all the non polish workers lost their jobs. Many of the "gangmasters" supplying farmers are eastern European and have 0% English workers on their books

I live in lincolnshire it is a well known fact that this happens but not everywhere I have a customer that has worked doing window installation for 25 years but was forced to leave the firm he worked for because the mainly Polish workforce refused to work alongside him shortly afterwards all the non polish workers lost their jobs. Many of the "gangmasters" supplying farmers are eastern European and have 0% English workers on their books

I take it that you have evidence to back up this claim?

I live in lincolnshire it is a well known fact that this happens but not everywhere I have a customer that has worked doing window installation for 25 years but was forced to leave the firm he worked for because the mainly Polish workforce refused to work alongside him shortly afterwards all the non polish workers lost their jobs. Many of the "gangmasters" supplying farmers are eastern European and have 0% English workers on their books
So after 25 years he was "forced" to leave and he didn't go to a tribunal about it. The rest lost their jobs and said nothing?
How many local people have asked to work for the farmers?

no he became a subcontractor to several other firms and earns more that way apparently

no he became a subcontractor to several other firms and earns more that way apparently

I can only go on what he told me but as a subcontractor he has worked for several companies but not the one he started with even though they did ask him back and apparently the existing workers threatened to walk off the job rather than work with him on first day so they cancelled him