EU workers plug skills gap in UK

An influx of labour from Eastern Europe is changing the face of the UK construction industry, comfortably bridging the skills gap brought about by sustained growth in the sector says an RICS report (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), published on the 1 April 2005.

RICS: Report: RICS construction market survey, 1st quarter 2005 http://www.rics.org/us/knowledge/research/

RICS: Press Release, 1.4.05: RICS construction market survey quarter 1 2005 http://www.rics.org/us/knowledge/news-insight/

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