Ministers are considering implementing restrictions on migrant workers to ensure there are jobs available for UK graduates, it has emerged. The move is in response to concerns that this year's graduates will bear the brunt of the economic downturn when they enter the jobs market. Immigration minister Phil Woolas said the government was considering tightening the points-based immigration system which applies to skilled migrant workers from outside the European Union. The development comes amid rows about the employment of Italian and Portuguese contractors at the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolnshire, to the exclusion of UK workers. Mr Woolas told the Independent: "The points-based system that has been introduced allows us to toughen the criteria, and clearly in the economic situation that is something it is beholden on us to do." Elsewhere, it was recently reported that graduates and small businesses are to receive £50 million to share for rapid retraining purposes. Pareto - Graduate Jobs with some the UK's largest companies earning up to £35k OTE. Pareto has a unique approach to placing graduates in high-profile graduate sales jobs and graduate jobs. We are the UK's largest and most successful graduate assessment, graduate placement and sales training organisation.
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