Exit Indians, Enter Maltese

The British employment market for immigrants is fast changing - employers now prefer hiring citizens from the 10 new EU member states to those from India or the Commonwealth countries, reports the Times of India:

..In the latest tracking of employment trends by the authoritative Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the 10 countries - for the first time - have emerged as "a more popular source of migrant labour" than the old EU, Commonwealth or the "rest of world". The 10 countries that joined the EU on May 1, 2004, - better known as the 'accession states' - are the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The trend has been revealed in the latest edition of CIPD's 'Labour Market Outlook'. The CIPD is the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people in Britain.