'Recruiting problems' 10 years on from Brexit vote

Tracey Farquhar-Beck, director of the Blonde Hedgehog in Alderney, said recruitment was the biggest problem her business faced. She said paperwork was putting foreign workers off coming to the bailiwick for work. Farquhar-Beck said: "We relied on attracting people from overseas and now that's very difficult because anybody in Europe is faced with visa applications and additional paperwork, additional costs, waiting times. "Also, because Alderney is such a small island and doesn't have a pool of potential employees, we have to look further afield and to attract these people. "Now we tend to have to go through recruiters, and that increases our already escalating costs. "There was a day when everybody wanted to come to the UK and to the Channel Islands to work in hospitality, and now it's very few and far between. "The people that we have, we like to keep, but then we can only keep them for a certain period of time. When they're not allowed to come back any longer, that again is another layer of difficulty for us."