Sharing this again since Parliament has decided to debate it. Hooray !
If you missed it the first time, this is about the madcap idea that we should deport skilled workers earning less than £35k if they've been here for more than 5 years. Yes, specifically skilled workers. The average UK salary is around £25k, so this is a very high threshold. For comparison, as a starting postdoc (minimum 7 years of higher education) I would expect around £24-28k, so this is by no means an easy threshold to meet.
The government already responded to the petition, which you can read in the link, stating that the threshold was based on the median pay level for skilled workers. Well, maybe, but I doubt this is the same in the private and public sector. They also state that there are many provisions for people in certain jobs - and there are. But there are also jobs which fall very close to but are not quite the same as these rigidly-defined boundaries. They also claim that they made the rules clear in 2011, but this does not appear to have been the case.
http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/these-are-the-people-who-will-have-to-leave-the-uk-under-theresa-mays-new-35k-threshold--bJBWsHvcYnx
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/118060
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