After delivering his regular update on the committee’s work, which includes preparing a report on the new law’s impact on the tourist industry, Peter Ferbrache said that it would press ahead with that regardless of the wider review already taking place.
‘The hospitality sector cannot take the slow road to China, it has to take the fast bus from Torteval to Town,’ he said, after being questioned by Deputy David De Lisle.
The law has come under fire from some businesses facing recruitment issues who want to return to the nine months on/three months off regime for short-term workers.
If Home Affairs came back to the States with its report before Economic Development, Deputy Ferbrache said he would applaud it, but in the likely event that it could take longer, his department would press ahead with its report.
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