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New Irish "Green Card" system planned for skilled workers
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16:42 29/09/2005
A new 'green card' system planned by the Irish government will allow highly skilled workers coming to Ireland to bring their families with them and allow spouses to work as soon as they want...
UK woman wears wedding gown to protest deportation
18:01 20/09/2005
A UK woman caught in a fight over her husband's deportation will lead a demonstration of asylum seekers' wives dressed in bridal gowns on the first day of Parliament in October. Heather Bullen, 32,...
UK helps refugee doctors work in the health system
12:06 19/09/2005
A government plan to help refugee doctors who come to Wales work in the UK health care system (called NHS) has been called a success by Social Justice Minister Edwina Hart. The Welsh Assembly...
UK trade unions fight for higher pay for migrant workers
17:03 16/09/2005
UK trade unions announced that they do not support the EU's new rules that allow firms to pay migrant workers poverty wages. The TUC opposed the EU services directive that will enable migrant workers...
Biometric passports no smiling matter
18:38 14/09/2005
Britons applying for a passport from 12 September will be ordered not to smile and pose with a neutral expression so new biometric scanners can accurately read their facial features. Britain's Home...
UK gives same sex couples new legal status
15:22 14/09/2005
The UK's Civil Partnership Act 2004 will come into force on 5 December 2005. Civil partnerships are a new legal relationship which can be registered by two people of the same sex and give the couples...
