The company’s bosses that hire concert economics may incur up to five years in prison if they do not check if their employees can legally work in the United Kingdom, said the Interior Ministry.
Employers may also be prohibited from operating as business directors, closing their activities or being struck by fines of up to £ 60,000 for each worker who is not checked in the government’s repression.
The announcement comes as secretary at home Yvette Cooper Prepares to speak to Sky News Breakfast Show Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips Today.
His department said that “thousands” of companies hire the concert economy and zero hour contract workers are not legally required to check if they have the right to work in the United Kingdom.
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The concert economy refers to an employment arrangement when work is allocated in the short term or short -term by employment in sectors such as construction, food delivery, beauty salons and messaging services.
Deliveroo food delivery companies, only eat and Uber eat all use this job approach.
However, these three employers already voluntarily make checks to ensure that their riders are eligible to work in the United Kingdom.
The home office Now has announced that all employers who hire the concert economy or zero hour contract workers will have to make these “vital checks” who take “a few minutes to finish”.
This amendment to border security, to the asylum and immigration bill will help “level the rules of the game for the majority of honest companies that do the right thing,” added the government department.
The Ministry of the Interior said it would provide checks for free and that “tightening” on illegal work is a “critical part of the government plan to strengthen the entire immigration system”.
This decision is also intended to “undermine the smugglers using the false promise of jobs for migrants,” he added.
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Ms. Cooper said: “Turn eyes to illegal work games in the hands of insensitive smugglers trying to sell spaces on fragile and overcrowded boats with the promise of work and a life in the United Kingdom.
“These operating practices are often an attempt to undermine the competitors who do the right thing. But we are clear that the rules must be respected and applied. ”
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Meanwhile, the government is preparing to welcome the first international summit in the United Kingdom on how to tackle the gangs of people’s counterpart.
The ministers and the application staff of 40 countries will meet in London on Monday and Tuesday to discuss international cooperation, supply routes, criminal finances and online advertisements for dangerous travel.
Countries such as Albania, Vietnam and Iraq – where migrants have traveled to the United Kingdom – will join the talks as well as in France, the United States and China.
The government will also distribute counter-terrorist style powers to the police and law enforcement agencies to suppress the gangs of the counterpart of people as part of the bill changes.