Tag: right to work
TrustID digital identity services approved by UK Government
Tony Machin
June 15, 2022
TrustID is a certified digital identity service provider (IDSP) for Right to Work (RtW), Right to Rent (RtR) and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks under the UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework.
Making Right to Work checks: what happens when they go wrong?
Tony Machin
November 19, 2018
As you probably know, if you’re employing staff in the UK, you must confirm their immigration status before they start work. This means checking their passport, visa, and/or another immigration document to confirm they have the Right to Work in the UK. So, what they thought were the biggest risks of getting checks wrong.
Overcoming 7 challenges of Right to Work checks
David Park
September 13, 2018
If you employ people in the UK, you are probably aware of the legal requirement to check that all potential and existing employees, regardless of their nationality, are eligible to work through Right to Work checks. In this blog, we look at 7 challenges that Right to Work checks bring to a business and how technology can help overcome them.
Why do we need to do pre-employment immigration checks on UK recruits?
Tony Machin
June 21, 2018
As you probably know, every employer has a legal duty to prevent illegal working and is required to undertake pre-employment immigration checks on all staff to ensure that they have the right to work in the UK. But if your recruits claim to be British or EU nations, do you really need to make Right to Work checks?
Making ID checks for compliance in Umbrella companies
David Park
October 20, 2017
According to analysis in 2017, the number of self-employed workers in the UK has increased by 23 per cent in the past decade. As a result, hundreds of thousands of workers now use umbrella companies to act as their employer. As the employer, the umbrella company needs to check the ID and Right to Work of every one of these contractors. So how can an umbrella organisation run identity checks efficiently and consistently to ensure they comply with current legislation?
