HMRC and Home Office joint webinars explains employers’ responsibilities

Joint webinars are being held by HMRC and the Home Office to ensure employers understand their responsibilities around illegal working and the minimum wage.

The webinars are being run by the Home Office Immigration Enforcement department, and HMRC’s National Minimum Wage (NMW) team to ensure employers are aware of and understand their legal responsibilities.

All employers in the UK have a responsibility to prevent illegal working and should conduct simple right to work checks before employing someone to ensure their immigration status does not disqualify them from working.

Most people employed as employees or workers must be paid the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage – it is the employer’s responsibility to check what pay they are entitled to.

The joint HMRC and Home Office webinar ‘Understanding right to work and minimum wage eligibility’ will take place on 10???th and 17???th October?????? 2023, where a panel of experts from both organisations will be on hand to answer questions from businesses. Content of the webinar will include:

• when an employer needs to conduct a right to work check
• what type of right to work check they need to conduct
• how to use the Home Office Employer Checking Service
• civil penalties and prosecutions when employers do not comply with the right to work legislation
• how to report immigration crime
• who is a worker for NMW purposes
• how to establish if someone is self-employed
• exemptions to minimum wage eligibility

Businesses can register to attend the webinar for free via the government website here.