Employers turn a ‘blind eye’ to illegal workers

It has been claimed that employers and the Government may be turning a blind eye to the immigration status of some of their employees because of the high level of flexibility illegal workers offer them.

Academics at Oxford University criticised the Government by saying that it may be unintentionally overlooking migrants working illegally in the UK because they provide a pool of cheap labour.

They highlighted a tension between employers' needs for low cost labour and the Government's nee... (237 more words)

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