Heavy Fines for Employing Illegal Migrant Workers
Employers comply with the law and avoid employing illegal workers. Employers should follow Government procedures including the retention of evidence of reference checks undertaken in the prescribed manner.
Failure to do so could prove very expensive.
News Article :
The Government is promoting a major new initiative advising employers of the need to undertake “appropriate checks” before employing any potentially illegal workers and the penalties it will impose for non compliance. Under Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 all UK employers are required to make basic documentation checks on anyone they employ and in May 2004 the Government outlined the types of documents which employers had to check together with the manner such checks are to be undertaken and recorded.
Any employer who is unable to prove that such checks have been undertaken is in breach of the law and can be taken to Court and fined. Under current Government proposals this fine will be assessed on a pro rata figure based on each illegal migrant worker employed. In addition to the financial cost of any breach the Government is also reminding employers of the potential loss of its good name in the market place after being fined for employing illegal workers.
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Date : 07-02-2007
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