• Immigration
• 16 June 2016

Free range eggs but not free range workers

Following the DJ Houghton Catching Services Ltd modern slavery case, employers should ensure that modern slavery is eradicated from their supply chains, with larger organisations being expected to publish annual slavery and trafficking statements.

• Immigration
• 03 June 2016

Employing people from outside the UK – how recent and future changes to UK immigration laws could impact your business

Immigration is never far from the headlines and never has it been so widely discussed as in the lead-up to the EU referendum. There is much debate over whether leaving the European Union would mean that nationals of the European Economic Area (or EEA, being the EU member states plus Norway, Lichtenstein and Iceland) would lose their visa-free access to the UK.

• Immigration
• 27 May 2016

Right to work checks – how to avoid a £20,000 fine from the Home Office

Employers who receive a “Information Request: Illegal Working Civil Penalty”must provide the necessary evidence within the set time frame if they are to have a statutory excuse against a civil penalty.