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Mr Sundar said firms also hire young, unskilled workers, especially from rural areas, by attracting them with a good starting salary.

The second way, Mr Sundar said, is by hiring young, unskilled workers, especially from rural areas, by attracting them with a good starting salary.

Investigators said there were a number of safety issues at the plant, including a failure to address quality defects in batteries and hiring unskilled staff to handle dangerous materials.

But while knitting has often been dismissed as unskilled, poorly paid "women's work," the properties of knits can be more complex than traditional engineering materials like rubbers or metals.

Pressed again on what counts as non-essential immigration, he says "unskilled labour", adding he does think care workers are skilled, but when pressed for an example he says "physical, manual labour".