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drew reid
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Apart from ensuring that certain new EU member state citizens are registered on the Worker Registration Scheme, for the first 12 months of employment in the UK, is there anything else, as an employee, we should do to ensure compliance with legislation.
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James Fairchild
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Check employee passports etc...
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Kevin Thomas
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First and most importantly - It is worth communicating with the border control and immigration department, they will give help and advice on employing migrant workers. There are checks which you can carry out on documents to ensure they are valid, from experience the forgeries are very good and are used to come in and out of the country by established illegal immigrants. As long as you carry out reasonable document checks you are unlikely to be prosecuted / fined (£10,000 per illegal immigrant) Some illegals arrive in the country on false EU documentation. Also we have discovered that production of a National Insurance card / number is not evidence of employment status for foreign nationals, they are forging these as well, the government department who collect NI contrbutions will not tell you if you are using a fake NI number, they are getting the money and don't check where it is coming from. Write a policy / procedure for employing migrant workers, make sure the HR department are aware of it and copy all documentation produced as evidence of identity and eligibility to work. To be PC you must carry out the same checks on all applicants even if they have a broad regional British accent.
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