Originally Posted by
BEagle
The devil is in the detail. BA made redundant hundreds of local IT employees less than a year ago, directly replacing many of them with Tier 2 intra-company transferees supplied by Tata to work in the UK.
There is no evidence that Tata advertised those jobs as required by law, nor did they TUPE over jobs that were replaced with Tier 2 ICTs.
Tier 2 ICTs had to be paid a minimum £24k at that time, although as of a few weeks ago the rules around ICT have changed dramatically due to the wholesale abuse of them such as in this case. This £24k includes both their salary and non-taxable expenditure such as housing and travel. So after expenses, HMRC gets to see tax on about £12k salary if they're lucky, as opposed to tax on, a local on, earning say £40k. Even if you could find locals to do the job for £24k, they would be taxed on housing and travel unlike imported labour.