Other Indian professionals to gain from ruling on docs

LONDON: Indian professionals in Britain are also expected to benefit from last Friday’s court ruling on treating doctors from India and other non-European Union countries on par with British and EU candidates for employment purposes.

Experts believe that a fallout of the rule is that it will brighten the employment prospects of thousands of other Indian professionals currently in Britain under the Highly Skilled Migrants Programme (HSMP). The ruling held that Indian and other non-EU doctors under the HSMP needed to be considered at par with British and EU doctors for employment.

Amit Kapadia, executive director of the campaigning group HSMP Forum said: “The decision would not only remove discriminatory rules for doctors on HSMP but also all the other professionals. Employers will have to stop unlawfully applying such rules of restricting HSMP holders from applying for permanent positions due to their limited leave to remain”