Foreign Nationals, Employment Of
Key points § Under section 8 of the Asylum & Immigration Act 1996 (which came into force on 27 January 1997), employers are liable to fines of up to £5,000 (for each offence) if they employ persons aged 16 or over who are either illegal immigrants or who do not have a legal and subsisting right to seek and obtain employment during their stay in the UK. Note Prosecutions will be brought not only against the body corporate but also against the individual director, personnel manager, company secretary, or other manager or supervisor identified as having been directly responsible for recruiting any such person. § In short, employers are nowadays duty-bound to check the P45, (which will include a successful job applicant's permanent National Insurance number), or the birth certificate, passport, identity card, certificate of registration or naturalisation as a British Citizen, a letter from the Home Office, or any other document containing a N...