Webinar: Immigration rules - conducting right to work checks and navigating upcoming changes
In this webinar, Annabel Mace, partner and head of immigration, and May Cheung, director, from Squire Patton Boggs' business immigration team, provides essential guidance on conducting right to work checks and common pitfalls. It also considers how the proposed expansion of right to work checks to cover workers and self-employed contractors will impact employers.
As the political focus on immigration intensifies, so too does the Home Office crackdown on illegal working. The first quarter of 2025 saw an 81% increase in civil penalties issued compared to the same period last year, with fines starting at £45,000 per employee for a first offence and rising to £60,000 for subsequent offences.
Many of these penalties are issued to well-intentioned employers that inadvertently fall foul of increasingly complex rules. Right to work requirements may vary depending on an employee's immigration status, nationality and start date.
This 60-minute webinar includes a Q&A session.
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About our speakers
Annabel Mace is a partner in Squire Patton Boggs' Labour & Employment practice group and heads up the UK business immigration team.
May Cheung is a director at Squire Patton Boggs and she specialises in UK business immigration law.
