Beauty industry calls for changes to immigration and wage increase policies

Trade bodies across beauty, spa, food, retail and hospitality have joined forces to call for changes in Government policy on immigration and wage increases.

The National Beauty Federation is among the bodies that have written to secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy Andrea Leadsom, asking for business relief on two big issues.

They want the Government to not risk the industry losing any EU workers currently employed by delaying their applications for settled or pre-settled status post-Brexit, as well as calling for restraint on further increases to the National Living Wage.