You have to show your passport when you start a job. The employer has to keep a copy. This has been the case since about 2011. Target employers not workers.
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I say workers should be required to carry ID Then - no delays. Contacting HQ to get some faded photocopy of a passport from when someone was 1st taken on isn't an answer Recently I saw immigration raid on a restaurant - it'll take hrs of work over weeks to confirm employee status - unnecessary
aug 27, 2025, 10:15 am • 0 0 • view
Of course you mean the raid, right? The biggest chancers I see are born and raised here and the employers who want the maximum while paying the minimum and providing crap conditions.
aug 27, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
No I mean the raid IS necessary, but could have been much simpler if we had ID cards implemented. The cost & delay of processing the raid is unnecessary. Once those are established such raids might then become unnecessary
aug 27, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
And BTW the reason employers use illegals - and it is always knowingly - is they do not need to pay NI, or deduct tax, or pay minimum wage, or comply with fair employment or H&S legislation, they can dispose of such workers without constraint. By doing so they undercut & damage honest businesses
aug 27, 2025, 11:58 am • 3 0 • view
And, of course a heavy fine or even mandatory closure for operations employing illegal workers
aug 27, 2025, 10:16 am • 0 0 • view