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Canine beauticians, DJs and pilates instructors are among the categories of overseas workers eligible to apply for UK skilled worker visas, an Oxford academic has found.

As the government promises a white paper later this year to slash the numbers entering the UK to work, a list of specific and in some cases unusual "middle-skilled" jobs to which foreign workers can still apply has been identified.

Analysis of Home Office data over three years to March 2024 shows that 334 visas were granted for "animal care service occupations", which include dog groomers, dog walkers, stable hands, kennel assistants and veterinary nursing assistants.

Over the same period, 167 fitness and wellbeing instructors, who include pilates and yoga teachers and lifestyle coaches, were given skilled worker visas.

Keir Starmer is launching an immigration policy drive amid a poll surge by Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.

The list of occupations also includes "costume interpreters" – the people wearing period dress who greet visitors at museums and National Trust properties.

The anomalies were unearthed by Robert McNeil, a researcher at the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. "Many of these roles may well be challenging and require particular skills, but they might not be the sort of things that are front of mind for most people when they imagine roles that are critical for UK employers to recruit from overseas," he said.

He found them among more than 300 designated jobs on the "eligible occupations" skilled worker visas list, after flitting past professions usually associated with visa applicants such as nursing, care work, the civil service, the diplomatic corps and banking.

In a blog post on Tuesday, McNeil said the jobs were on the list because of changes introduced after the UK left the EU. "At the same time as ending free movement, the government reduced the skills threshold to allow middle-skilled jobs to qualify for work visas. Previously, only graduate jobs qualified in the system that applied to non-EU citizens.

"When people think about such middle-skilled jobs, roles like plumbers, bricklayers or engineering technicians spring to mind. But defining what is actually middle-skilled is not straightforward," he said. "Some of the results are surprising."

The "middle-skilled" list also includes "air travel assistants" – cabin crew and staff who check baggage at airports. In the year ending March 2024, 869 visas were issued for these roles. Cemetery managers, homeopaths and cycling instructors are also on the list.

Ministers have promised to tighten the rules around visas after repeatedly saying they want to reduce overall migration. Starmer accused the Conservative government of conducting an "open borders experiment" in November after revised official figures showed net migration to the UK hit a record 906,000 in 2023.

The white paper is expected to be published in spring as part of Starmer's plans to see off the political challenge from Reform. Among the proposals included in the document will be moves to reduce legal immigration, including by linking migration to skills and ensuring more British workers are trained to fill jobs commonly recruited from abroad.

It is also expected to take into account a Migration Advisory Committee review ordered by the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to limit overseas hiring by technology and engineering companies.

But Labour is also keen to show the UK remains open to high-skilled workers by reviewing visa routes. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, told a breakfast event at the World Economic Forum in Davos: "We are going to look again at routes for the highest skilled people, visas particularly in the areas of AI and life sciences."

Home Office sources say that while the "eligible occupations" list is eclectic, applying for a visa is just the first step in being able to come to the UK to work. Foreign workers also need to be sponsored by an employer and most are required to be paid a minimum of £38,700. The required income drops to just less than £31,000 or lower if the applicant is under 26 or engaged in certain types of higher education.

Asked to respond to McNeil's findings, a government spokesperson said: "We are grateful for the work skilled international professionals do in the UK. However, it is clear that we must end reliance on overseas labour and boost economic growth. That's why, under our Plan for Change, we will publish a white paper to set out a comprehensive plan to restore order to the broken immigration system, as we aim to link our immigration, skills and visa systems to boost the domestic workforce."

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Literally HUNDREDS of comments about

FRICK WINDOWS 11

I dont even get it. It doesn't make any fricking sense, Win11 has the latest features for gaming and is a much better OS than 10

Ewer, 28, showed an unhealthy interest in her student that was noticed almost "immediately" after she started working at Brady Exploration School in August 2023, the DA Office's investigation revealed.

In November 2023, after the boy hinted at an improper relationship with Ewer in a classroom assignment that another teacher saw, authorities at the school contacted the Lakewood Police Department.

They soon uncovered evidence of a disturbing sexual relationship between the pair, including explicit text messages and signs that drugs, guns and alcohol had been introduced, per prosecutors.

Thousands upon thousands upon thousands" of messages were sent by Ewer to her student and vice versa, with references to many sexual encounters, according to prosecutors.

Ewer introduced the teenager to illegal and deadly drugs including fentanyl, First Judicial District Attorney's Office Special Victims Prosecutor Brynn Chase told her sentencing hearing.

She also attempted to get the boy to bring a gun to their sexual encounters as well as shoot a fellow faculty member in their school, the sentencing hearing heard.

Ewer told the boy "to bring the gun to school and shoot another faculty member in the leg," Chase said at the hearing.

Average dimwit American (aka teacher's) understanding of firearm usage

Ewer was sentenced to four years in jail on January 31, after pleading guilty last November to sexual assault on a child and contributed to the delinquency of a minor, both felonies, a month before her trial was due to start.

"I'm really sorry; this will never happen again," she said, as per the office.

Probably because nobody will let you around the 'tarded kids anymore

Before her brief spell there, Ewer had worked at several Jefferson County public schools in various roles, including teaching assistant, paraprofessional, and school nurse, since 2015.

I have 2FA on (authenticator based not phone number based), I use a randomly generated password, I've removed all active sessions, but someone keeps changing the password somehow and adding a new phone number. I don't know why either they haven't tried to buy anything.

How tf are they doing it. If it happens again I'm probably just gonna close the account as I barely ever use it.

@Redactor0 @BrasilIguana @Gaydinosaurtrain @SCUM !historychads decided to just go ahead and make a post.

Despite Japan being closed to outsiders during the Edo period between 1603 to 1868, they still had some idea of the outside world. One interesting case was what they knew about the fledgling country of America. The following is a collection of different pages from a book about America's history called Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi written in 1861. After doing some digging it seems like this book was in earnest, it believed what it had written, taking its sources from two other books about America.

Here is George Washington (with bow and arrow) pictured alongside the Goddess of America.

Here is Christopher Columbus (seated at center) reporting his discovery of America to Queen Isabella of Spain.

Now it's the American Revolution. Here is George Washington defending his wife "Carol" from a British official named "Asura" (same characters as the Buddhist deity).

And here is Washington's "second-in-command" John Adams battling an enormous snake.

Here is Washington and his wife "Carol" meeting an extremely youthful Benjamin Franklin, who has an impressive squat.

Here's the incredibly jacked Benjamin Franklin firing a cannon that he holds in his bare hands, while John Adams directs him where to fire.

And here is George Washington straight-up punching a tiger.

Best buds John Adams and Ben Franklin must have had a falling out, because John Adams fires an arrow at Ben and then rides away like a cowardly little b-word. Of course Ben Franklin is a total badass, so he just stands there and lets the arrow fly by without even flinching.

During a calmer moment, John Adams is just chillin' in the countryside, having a quiet picnic with his elderly mother...

But then! While John Adams is too obsessed with the food and drink, a huge snake comes along and eats his mom!

Maybe the snake was a child of that other snake John Adams killed, or maybe it was sent by Ben Franklin as part of their feud?

Here is Washington leading his army from behind in a carriage. The American flag has no stars, only stripes, and the author seems very impressed that the carriage has not one but TWO horses.

Meanwhile, John Adams wants to get revenge on the snake that ate his Mom , so he goes to ask a magical mountain fairy for help!

The mountain fairy does Adams a solid, and summons a gigantic eagle!

Together, John Adams and the eagle kill the enormous snake that ate his Mom. The power of teamwork!!!

So that's it, really interesting blend between a modern idea like the US and more mythical storytelling. Reads a lot like tales of Alexander the Great or of bible characters like David. Cool illustrations too. There are more pages, but I can't find any translation, despite them looking very interesting. Here's the whole book: https://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko11/bunko11_a0380/bunko11_a0380_0002/bunko11_a0380_0002.html

>Third world country "demands" anything from a trillion dollar company

The UK government's "technical capability notice" requires blanket access rather than merely assistance to access a specific account, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.

It's over bongchuds once they see my right wing memes I'm done. This is my last broadcast.

Except of course this isn't the first time Britain tried to enforce their Orwellian speech laws with Apple and then Literally Nothing Happened

That will not stop the users of /r/unitedkingdom from having a mental breakdown

It has begun. Welcome to a society without secure services.

Uh oh, someone's been in a coma since 2016!

Utterly mad. Amazed Apple will not turn down this request or simply threaten not to sell them in the UK. They'd change their tune pretty quick then.

Lmao, good luck Apple doing that. The UK is a pretty decent chunk of their European market and with a pretty good position I would say.

that's only because we have to buy a new phone every month when they get snatched by a moped rowdie

Jfc, can we have just a few weeks at least without some authoritarian bullshit being thrust upon us.

reminder that bongs vigorously support mass surveillance and banning knives so they don't have to talk about the Rwandan Question

this is the thin end of the wedge and they will be coming for this on all platforms.

No because google has probably already enthusiastically served up all of its users' data

To be fair, the Tories had extensive plans to break end to end encryption too.

yes we may be jackboot authoritarians but have you considered The Tories The Tories The Tories the Tories The Tories

There is a huge difference here between 'back door with a warrant', and 'back door with no warrant'.

I believe 'back door with no warrant' is something Pakistanis were doing to british schoolchildren between the years of 2002 and 2018

Jannies shut it down before anything could could get really good but there's quite a few sour apples freaking out.

I wanted to reply so hard on this guy mentioning Mt. McKinley but alas.

Most of crypto for the last while has been based on the asymmetric difficulty of two items of the same maths operation

p = prime1

q = prime2

result = p * q

asymmetry 1 : it is very easy to check that a number multiplied by result involved p and q, assuming you know them already.

asymmetry 2: it is very hard to work out what p and q are if you only see the result term, mostly because they're [a] prime and [b] big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_function

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Enter BetYes, a Canadian Citizen will successfully kill at least one USAmerican before March 3rd, 2025 and a credible source will report that the killer was politically motivated by Trump's actions towards Canada (tariffs, annexation threats, etc.) - 31 bets

Enter Betnothing ever happens - 171 bets

As with similar bets, I will provide a five hundred (500) dramapeso bounty to the first to send me an article describing an example of the above. If no such article is sent, then on March 3, I will spend five (5) minutes on google news trying to find such an article. If I do not find it at the end of that time, then chudjak wins the bet.

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !edgelords

!remindme March 3rd "resolve canada"

closed

Favorite bit is that he dislikes the term "pro-choice" because it "supposes that choosing to have a child cannot be wrong".

I support abortion rights, not "choice".

archive

/r/AskCanada waffles between telling him that he's delusional and he's the only thing standing between us and a Trump fascism world order.

His wife is putting us all in danger by not putting the nation first

IT'S THE END OF THE FRICKING WORLD. For some reason all the libtards had to wait until Jan 20th for the results of an election decided on Nov 5th.

Yes I'm completely normal politically, let me tell you how Putler literally puppets America like the Nazis said Jews did.

"Perhaps your energy should go to bettering yourself and your family" NO, I'm too fired up for Canada's impending Red Dawn

I feel really bad for whoever was dumb enough to marry this reactionary boomer

This is super cereal, go to the sub for the protests that barely happened and did nothing, comrade

Gee, I wonder who that rule is for...

I made an analogy to Nazi Germany... bet you feel stupid now

Here's a few other interesting things from Andy's recent reddit history, while we're at it.

Yes, he's an armchair general when it comes to Ukraine/Russia that knows better than everyone involved. How could you tell?

He's now vote Liberal, no matter who (I thought having more than 2 choices was what made Canada better than the US?)

His principled boycott of US products stops at Costco's doors, lol

Putin is behind everything, especially his immediate family when they disagree with him.

enjoyer

The non-pacifistic pacifist

Leaf dramatards, if you know any 40 year olds with a 5 year old daughter and pissed off wife, check up on them to make sure he hasn't killed them before Drumpf can get them.

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. pic.twitter.com/vVP5hjsOY0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 12, 2025

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https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ipluyt/im_think_lay_offs_are_here_at_the_irs/

https://old.reddit.com/r/IRS/comments/1ippxle/us_irs_prepares_to_lay_off_thousands_of_workers/

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency's plans, and cuts could happen as soon as next week.

This comes as the Trump administration intensified sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, by ordering agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection.

It's unclear how many IRS workers will be affected.

Previously, the administration announced a plan to offer buyouts to almost all federal employees through a "deferred resignation program" to quickly reduce the government workforce. The program deadline was Feb. 6, and administration officials said employees who accept will be able to stop working while still collecting a paycheck until Sept. 30.

However, IRS employees involved in the 2025 tax season were told they will not be allowed to accept a buyout offer from the Trump administration until after the taxpayer filing deadline, according to a letter sent recently to IRS employees.

It is unclear how many workers will be impacted by the layoff announcement plan. Representatives from the U.S. Treasury and IRS did not respond to Associated Press requests for comment.

Jan. 27 was the official start date of the 2025 tax season, and the IRS expects more than 140 million tax returns to be filed by the April 15 deadline. The Biden administration invested heavily in the IRS through an $80 billion infusion of funds in Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act, which included plans to hire tens of thousands of new employees to help with customer service and enforcement as well as new technology to update the tax collection agency.

Republicans have been successful at clawing back that money, and billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have called for the U.S. to "delete entire agencies" from the federal government as part of his to radically cut spending and restructure its priorities.

Elected officials are trying to fight against DOGE plans. Attorneys general from 14 states challenged the authority of to access sensitive government data and exercise "virtually unchecked power" in a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, says the actions taken by Musk at the helm of DOGE can only be taken by a nominated and Senate-confirmed official. It cites constitutional provisions that delineate the powers of Congress and the president.

pic.twitter.com/SNPO6xUMeb

— 의코 (@ui2ko) February 11, 2025