The government should put further restrictions on labour movement from outside the EU if it is to safeguard jobs for British workers during the recession, the CIPD has said.

Following the wildcat strikes that broke out across the country last week in response to the use of foreign construction workers at an oil refinery in Lincolnshire, CIPD chief economist John Philpott told PM the government would be justified in “tightening up” the points-based system for non-EU migrants if the UK labour market continued to deteriorate.