A right to work check must be properly conducted before an employee starts working for you. However, although this check may undertaken correctly, there are two traps which can potentially invalidate
it. What do you need to know?
Published 22.09.2022
Before a job applicant takes up employment, you must check that they are allowed to work in the UK. You can verify this by checking certain documents. When the documents are produced, what should you
be looking for?
Published 07.09.2018
If you unknowingly employ an illegal worker, i.e. a person who does not have the right to work in the UK, you now face a £20,000 penalty per employee. How can this be avoided?
Published 28.04.2014
You might have read that as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration the government intends to temporarily shut down any business that’s suspected of employing workers illegally. Should you be
worried about this?
Published 15.09.2015
From 28 January 2019 it will be much easier to check right to work status in certain situations by using the Home Office’s Right to Work Checking Service. When can it be used?
Published 15.01.2019
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that an employee who was sacked on the grounds of “illegality” when he couldn’t produce evidence of his right to work in the UK was unfairly dismissed. Where
did the employer go wrong?
Published 15.12.2017
New laws that aim to crack down on migrants working illegally in the UK have just come into force. But guess who will be expected to police them?
Published 20.03.2008
Employers must carry out right to work checks on prospective employees before employment begins. To help make this process easier during the coronavirus outbreak, some temporary changes have been
made. What’s happened?
Published 21.04.2020
By law, you must ask all potential new employees to produce documents that prove they have right to work in the UK. But what about your long-standing employees. Must they produce documents proving
their right to work too?
Published 27.02.2018