{"id":979276,"date":"2023-02-01T17:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T17:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=59b72674aa0d63b64ff9a952bb22f63b"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T17:25:35","slug":"consequences-of-brexit-are-surfacing-as-uk-faces-severe-labor-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/01\/consequences-of-brexit-are-surfacing-as-uk-faces-severe-labor-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences of Brexit Are Surfacing as UK Faces Severe Labor Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November, the Office for National Statistics reported that more than 13 percent of businesses in the U.K. were experiencing labor shortages. That number has been something of a constant since the fall of 2021, when much of the economy began reopening after the extended pandemic lockdowns. In some industries, however, the numbers were far, far worse: more than one-third of restaurants and hotels...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/consequences-of-brexit-are-surfacing-as-uk-faces-severe-labor-shortages\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/consequences-of-brexit-are-surfacing-as-uk-faces-severe-labor-shortages\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unharvested crops are rotting in the U.K. amid a post-Brexit labor shortfall of 330,000 workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[892,2816,30484,286,453,23029,5627,5192,4711,1395],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979277,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979276\/revisions\/979277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}