{"id":55,"date":"2013-02-11T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjbealehrconsult-co-uk.php5.hostingweb.co.uk\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2013-02-11T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:29:00","slug":"employing-foreign-nationals-how-to-stay-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjbealehrconsult.co.uk\/blog\/employing-foreign-nationals-how-to-stay-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Employing Foreign Nationals &#8211; How to Stay Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MvcwVb_3thI\/UPKpQBE7K3I\/AAAAAAAAAO0\/MHUTpSiStmw\/s1600\/Employing+foreign+nationals.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"employing foreigners, employing foreign nationals, migrant workers, foreign workers\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MvcwVb_3thI\/UPKpQBE7K3I\/AAAAAAAAAO0\/MHUTpSiStmw\/s200\/Employing+foreign+nationals.jpg\" title=\"Employing Foreign Nationals\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Later this year the UK will accept Bulgarian and Rumanian immigrants to live and work here.\u00a0 This follows a two year restriction\u00a0on doing so\u00a0that was implemented in November 2011 in order to protect the UK economy and all time jobs low but follows various EU treaties that allow the unrestricted movement of people within the EU states.<\/p>\n<p>With this latest possible influx of EU migrants\u00a0it is important that employers check the status of their employees to ensure that they have the right to work in the UK. Its difficult to know without checking given that there are many nationalities who have come to the UK to find work. A recent Panorama programme showed the UK Border Agency raiding a South London company who were illegally employing foreign nationals.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s not just the migrants who were in trouble, employers who fail to make robust checks on their employees can face huge fines with civil and criminal penalties.<\/p>\n<p>There are key documents that employees need to provide to their employer that show their\u00a0immigration status eg passport, visa.\u00a0 An employer should ask for these documents as part of the recruitment process before taking on the employee and keep a photocopy on file which will help them if they are audited; details of the documents that can provide proof of immigration status can be found on the UK Border Agency website.\u00a0 Provided you can show you have correctly checked the documentation it provides a statutory defence against a penalty.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not just about checking whether the workers have the right to work in the UK, it&#8217;s about ensuring that they are not working too many hours or undertaking a type of work that they should not be doing; students for example can only work a certain number of hours per week.\u00a0 Also some migrants may have time limits on their right to stay in the UK, that is why it is important to undertake regular checks at least once every 12 months.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The legislation that governs the employment of foreign nationals is the Immigration Asylum\u00a0&#038;\u00a0Nationality\u00a0Act 2006 that came into force on 29 February 2008\u00a0and applies to staff who are employed from that date.\u00a0 Guidance on managing migrants employed 27 January 1997 to\u00a028 February 2008 is governed by\u00a0the Asylum &#038; Immigration Act 1996. <\/p>\n<p>The UK Border Agency provides lots of useful\u00a0guidance here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk\/sitecontent\/documents\/employersandsponsors\/preventingillegalworking\/currentguidanceandcodes\/comprehensiveguidancefeb08.pdf?view=Binary\">http:\/\/www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk\/sitecontent\/documents\/employersandsponsors\/preventingillegalworking\/currentguidanceandcodes\/comprehensiveguidancefeb08.pdf?view=Binary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this year the UK will accept Bulgarian and Rumanian immigrants to live and work here.\u00a0 This follows a two year restriction\u00a0on doing so\u00a0that was implemented in November 2011 in order to protect the UK economy and all time jobs low but follows various EU treaties that allow the unrestricted movement of people within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,100,98,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employing-foreign-nationals","category-employing-immigrants","category-employing-migrants","category-foreign-workers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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