North firms named and shamed over illegal workers

[philphil61]

thanks Dedworth for your efforts and relevant post - very informative

but am I missing something

the UKBA information states

These reports list employers on whom we have imposed civil penalties for not complying with illegal working legislation etc

Imposed civil penalties < I'm unsure whether this means civil fines passed onto the employer or paid/recovered fines received from employer

[Dedworth]

thanks Dedworth for your efforts and relevant post - very informative

but am I missing something

the UKBA information states

Imposed civil penalties < I'm unsure whether this means civil fines passed onto the employer or paid/recovered fines received from employer

Phil -"Civil Penalty" would appear to be UKBA terminology for the financial penalty imposed on an employer hiring illegals - it only gets imposed if the rogue employer cannot prove that they carried out ID checks etc on the germs. It is a max of £10k per worker but as we've seen the max is seldom applied. I think it is a civil fine and only becomes criminal much, much further along the line after prolonged non payment - (all part of the predictable limpwristed approach to this scourge on society). If you search the forum I think Joe Bloggs once found a court report on a 'Stani restaurant owner who's just about the only person to have gone to jail over this.