25 Sep, 2024 Back to work (again): Home Office's right to work guidance updated By Hazel Findlay The Home Office updated the employer’s guide to right to work checks again on 23 September 2024 (and it is stated to apply to right to...
14 Aug, 2024 Employer provides a holiday fund savings scheme - What could go wrong? By Hannah Bollard Sometimes employers try to do the right thing and still get it wrong. Lees of Scotland are in that boat right now, having set up a...
04 Jul, 2024 A few immigration tweaks – too few to mention? I think not… By Hazel Findlay The politicians might have downed tools and joined the campaign trail, however, for Home Office staff, it has been more like business as...
15 Mar, 2024 Spring cleaning your NMW records... are they ready for your workers to inspect? By Hannah Bollard With the National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates increasing in April, it’s never a better time to have a spring clean of your records and for...
27 Feb, 2024 MAC report on the Immigration Salary List - care workers to remain By Hazel Findlay On Friday 23 February 2024, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) published its rapid review of the Immigration Salary List (ISL) which...
15 Feb, 2024 Updated right to work checks guidance for employers By Hazel Findlay UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has produced an updated employer’s guide to right to work checks. This updates the previous guide which...
04 Dec, 2023 Sick of reading about holiday entitlement? Now you can listen instead! By Libby Hubbard Following on from Hannah's blog on the Government's draft Regulations to amend the Working Time Regulations 1998 (found here), Hannah and...
28 Nov, 2023 Prevention of illegal working - new draft code and starting fine of £45,000 per worker By Hannah Bollard Hazel Findlay All employers should note that that the Home Office has published a new draft code of practice on preventing illegal working which will...
16 Nov, 2023 Changes to rehabilitation periods - should health and social care employers be concerned? By Hannah Bollard On 28 October 2023, the rehabilitation periods under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (the Act) changed. The new rehabilitation...
08 Nov, 2023 The Government response is out and it looks like 12.07% is on the way back in By Hannah Bollard We blogged back in January about the Government's consultation on how holiday entitlement for part-year workers and workers with...
18 Sep, 2023 4 October - immigration fees will rise By Hannah Bollard Hazel Findlay I posted at the start of August about the Government's announcement that they were going to raise immigration fees significantly for...
02 Aug, 2023 Government announces large rise in immigration fees By Hannah Bollard On 13 July 2023, the Government agreed to raise immigration fees significantly for sponsoring employers and their migrant employees....