Recruiter Staffline buoyed by Home Office drive to keep EU workers

Temp agency Staffline on Wednesday hailed Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s push to convince 3.6 million EU immigrants to stay in Britain post-Brexit.

The UK firm employs thousands of temporary workers in vital UK industries such as food production and 60% are from the Continent.

Chief executive Chris Pullen said his company would help Javid — a former City banker — get the message through to EU migrants to apply for settled status.

The Home Office is producing a communication pack for UK firms to help their EU workers stay in the country. “There’s no British worker in the background being cheated out of a job. There is no alterative to the 3.6 million migrant workers doing these roles,” Pullen said.

He added that he was “increasinglty comfortable” with how the Government handled Brexit. “It’s a realistic soft Brexit, What’s important is that EU workers understand they are welcome to stay,” he said.