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Guidance: Illegal working penalties: codes of practice for employers

Home Office

January 23
15:24 2024

Code of practice on preventing illegal working: 6 April 2022

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Code of practice on preventing illegal working: Right to Work Scheme for employers, 13 February 2024

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The adjustments to right to work checks, introduced because of coronavirus (COVID-19), ended on 30 September 2022. See guidance about the adjusted process.

Employers have a key role to play in preventing illegal working in the UK. They do this by carrying out right to work checks on people before employing them, to make sure they are allowed to do the work in question.

This code of practice sets out the prescribed checks that employers should conduct to avoid a civil penalty in the event of illegal working and the factors that the Home Office takes into account when determining the amount of any penalty issued.

Previous versions of the code of practice are on the National Archives website.

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Published 1 July 2021
Last updated 23 January 2024 +show all updates
  1. Published the code of practice on preventing illegal working: Right to Work Scheme for employers. The code comes into force from 13 February 2024.

  2. Draft code of practice on preventing illegal working: Right to Work Scheme for employers, November 2023.

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