Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats have entered into a new agreement with the Home Office to help tackle illegal working in the UK. It will build on existing efforts to tackle illegal account sharing and real-time identity & Right to Work checks. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/n...
Sharing the location of asylum hotels will send pricks like #30pLee into an absolute w@nkfest surely?
i don't think this has been thought out, if they are "working illegally". a lot of the British people[even the right] are about to have their orders hit very hard. others won't do that work [see farming]. so when this happens you watch how quick [especially the right] don't mind "illegals who work"
also you watch how Farage and co spin it to "get the people on benefits doing this work" 30P Lee suggested this when he was a Tory, when he wanted "noisy neighbours" housed/locked up in tents and only let out to work on a farm. at this point i can see Keir robbing Lee's idea.
It will empower companies to identify patterns of misuse and more quickly suspend accounts, while the Home Office will share info like the location of asylum hotels with the companies to identify potential hotspots. It's all part of the plans to tackle irregular migration from every angle. 2/2
That sounds a bit sinister tbh. And it also sounds like a rather cosy arrangement whereby the culprits (Deliveroo etc) continue to get away with illegal practices as long as they offer up a few workers as sacrifice. In fact, it stinks.
Agreed. There’s an existing system where companies face significant penalties when employing illegally. Deliveroo et al would soon sort their systems out if getting hit with multiple £60k fines. But it’s always the same. Existing powers are rarely used (unless against us little people).
I heard about a Home Office raid on Byron Burger, who were reputed to be employing illegal immigrants…. before the raid took place. It seems the HO had advised in advance of the raid :-)
I've seen reports of hand car washes being targeted by police & immigration in Oxfordshire in recent days.
Good. I don’t wish to demonise asylum seekers - far from it. But nail bars, barbers, delivery bikes and anywhere else where the govt isn’t receiving tax for employment should be addressed. And I’d reduce the VAT threshold to £10k to catch the scam of multiple identical companies to avoid VAT
So… that only applies to employees, not self-employed gig workers. So the obvious answer would be to make Deliveroo responsible in the same was as if they were employers (which they are, in all but name). Instead they are being asked to help.
Also, why not let asylum seekers work? It's performative cruelty
Not saying I agree but the argument is, if they were allowed to work, then it would increase the pull. The UK’s pavements would indeed be paved with gold (relatively speaking). When the partners we need to work with, eg Macron/France, say we have to reduce those pull-factors.
So, that's supposed to be more important than - the mental health of legitimate asylum seekers - integration - cut down the cost for the taxpayer - the positive impact on the economy There could be a process to only allow asylum seekers who have a fair chance of getting an application 1/2
accepted to work. Why let them rot when they're likely to be accepted? Let them contribute.
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If they allowed asylum seekers to work this problem wouldn’t exist.
This sadly, is at one with the Tories forcing employers, landlords etc to do the Home Office’s work instead of bearing responsibility for their own ham-fisted immigration policies What exactly is “wrong” with asylum seekers seeking work which could reduce reliance on state benefits? I’ll wait …
Nothing. This is aimed at people who are here illegally, not refugees. Whether it will work or be abused by employers remains to be seen.
So they say, but it really isn’t; it’s a scattergun approach that targets everyone & occasionally picks up overstayers & others in the UK unlawfully It could be resolved with a national ID scheme as would a wealth of other issues including “health tourism” but that would be bonkers & un-British 🤷♂️
If they are working here legally why would they be asked to leave? If employers still take on those here illegally to save money on wages they are acting illegally & should be censured for it. On paper it sounds viable, but this is the real world, so who knows 🤷
I'm not disputing the legal aspects; it is what it is However, what you find is all potential low paid workers for these roles all come under suspicion as "illegals" & find themselves having to prove otherwise, guilty until proven innocent; in effect, compensating for a disfunctional HO process
Or the government could just insist that all “gig” workers become employees
Many people who are trafficked lead appalling lives, don't pay tax or NI, have no access to healthcare, state benefits or Pension. Often traffickers take their earnings as part of the cost of brining them to the UK.
You know, you could just let the poor bastards work. How’s that for out of the box thinking
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