All the houses and lodgings were full to bursting; special trains were laid on to bring in workers from neighbouring towns.
"Now, it's cheaper to bring in workers from the outside, from Romania, China," complained the mayor, Abdul Rahim Foqara, a relative.
Mr. Romano has long savored one solution for such hiring woes: the federal government should make it easier to bring in workers from abroad.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "In the past it has been too easy for some businesses to bring in workers from overseas rather than take the long-term decision to train our workforce here at home.
The high cost of local housing makes it harder to bring in workers from other regions.So it is at Gardner Aerospace, based in Derby, another mid-sized firm creating jobs.
A Home Office spokesman said: "In the past it has been too easy for some businesses to bring in workers from overseas rather than to take the long-term decision to train our workforce here at home.
Migration from EU countries cannot be cut and may even grow.One reason is that, as it becomes harder to bring in workers from other parts of the world, EU migrants may fill those jobs, keeping numbers up.
And new labour regulations make it harder for firms based in the city-state to bring in workers from abroad, exacerbating the scarcity of skilled developers.With its huge market and vast pool of venture capital, America is still the destination of choice for founders the world overThis is not to say that Singapore's ecosystem will fall apart.
This already happens in the US and is one of several proposals we will be consulting on as part of our work to ensure that companies take reasonable steps to recruit at home before looking to bring in workers from abroad.
In the past, the sort of employment growth seen in the capital between 2010 and 2016 would have sucked in workers from the regions but during the post-recession period the number of UK-born workers living in London dropped by 320,000.
