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UK  Jobs 'to be posted longer in UK'  Immigration officer at
Heathrow The Tories have said Labour is floundering on
immigration  Employers will have to advertise jobs to UK workers
for at least a month before they can be offered overseas, the
government has announced.  Home Secretary Alan Johnson said that
from next year the legal minimum period to post vacancies on
Jobcentre Plus would be doubled from two weeks.  He added that
this meant non-EU workers could not be used as a "cheaper
alternative" to those from the UK.  But the Tories said Labour
was "overselling" the changes.  The number of overseas-born
workers in the UK reached 3.8 million last year.  In a speech,
Mr Johnson said the government had accepted all the
recommendations made recently by its Migration Advisory
Committee.  Longer qualification  He announced the minimum
salary to allow someone from overseas to qualify as a skilled
worker in the UK would rise from £17,000 to £20,000.  Th