Resident Labour Market Test to be lifted for high earners?

Ok, Damian Green said that the RLMT would be lifted for high earners. I thought it already had been lifted for people earning £150.000 or more? And they are exempt from the cap? So, obviously, they are returning to the old Tier 1 General system that they scrapped two years ago?

Damien Green says they are lifting the RLMT for higer earners, therefore your conclusion is they are reverting to the Tie 1 General system. Sorry, don't see how you have come to that conclusion.

Well basically, that was the idea of the old Tier 1 General, where people would come in and work at a high paid job without it having to pass the labour market test. Also, I thought, high earners were already exempt from the labour market test and cap. So what is Damian Green on about now?

GSOtodd wrote:Well basically, that was the idea of the old Tier 1 General, where people would come in and work at a high paid job without it having to pass the labour market test. Also, I thought, high earners were already exempt from the labour market test and cap. So what is Damian Green on about now?

maybe they will lower the cap for high earners- or maybe he is just talking about what they have already done. In any case - RLMT is not the only element of Tier 2 - you have to be sponsored by a particular employer for a specific job - tier 1 General didn't require that at all. I do not think they will bring back Tier 1 general and this is not what he means.