Freelance UK reflects on a new report highlighting the ‘absolute nightmare’ of post-Brexit UK visa requirements.
The impact of Brexit on freelancers and the UK’s creative industries has been laid bare.
In a damning new report, the government is starkly reminded that it put in place “no clear provisions…dedicated to self-employed” people from abroad, in the 2020 Brexit deal.
In its 62 pages, the report warns that replacing freedom of movement with a single immigration system that “does not accommodate” such freelancers “could be problematic.”
The self-employed account for 27% of the UK creative workforce, but pre-Brexit, over 70% of non-British freelancers’ engagers said they could not replace them with Britons.
Sectors strongly reliant on EEA and non-EAA freelancers stand to be “particularly affected,” warns the report, by the Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre (PEC) at NESTA...Keep reading on Freelance UK.
The impact of Brexit on freelancers and the UK’s creative industries has been laid bare.
In a damning new report, the government is starkly reminded that it put in place “no clear provisions…dedicated to self-employed” people from abroad, in the 2020 Brexit deal.
In its 62 pages, the report warns that replacing freedom of movement with a single immigration system that “does not accommodate” such freelancers “could be problematic.”
The self-employed account for 27% of the UK creative workforce, but pre-Brexit, over 70% of non-British freelancers’ engagers said they could not replace them with Britons.
Sectors strongly reliant on EEA and non-EAA freelancers stand to be “particularly affected,” warns the report, by the Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre (PEC) at NESTA...Keep reading on Freelance UK.