Employee vetting and advice

As all UK immigration lawyers and solicitors can advise, the regulations relating to UK employment law can be strict. A new and worrying development in UK employment and immigration law is the introduction of civil penalties.

Any UK employer who has been found to have foreign or migrant workers in their establishment working illegally may be subject to a large fine – up to 10,000 per worker.

UK Employers need immigration lawyers, not only to resist and challenge fines once issues by the UKBA, but also require training before the event.

This is because there exists defence to the fine, even if the illegal worker was found to have no permission to work. An employer may have a defence if they can show that it undertook the correct checks of the employee’s immigration status documents using the method set out and prescribed by the Home Office.

Our Immigration Lawyers can provide detailed training on the nature of these checks as well as on practice and procedure used by the UKBA. We train all HR and directors for large and small business, from Corporation, to SME’s to Start-Ups. We ensure that their HR and personnel teams are trained to conduct the appropriate checks.

Our leading immigration lawyers have been providing good quality, common sense advice to businesses for years – please contact us to help with all aspects of immigration law and compliance.

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