New Visa Rules For Businesses Employing Migrant Workers

The Government has shown that it will not tolerate employers breaching the visa rules in respect of overseas workers. Sanctions against such rogue employers are to be strengthened and will apply not only to employers that repeatedly commit serious employment breaches but in future, any signs that the rules have been broken will attract an action plan to which the employer will be bound for 12 months, aimed at preventing any future breaches and assist them to correct their bad practice. Repeat offenders will be prevented from hiring overseas workers for at least two years.

Employers who continuously flout the rules in respect of their migrant workers, for example, by failing to pay the minimum wage or provide payslips, sick pay or holiday pay and considerably overcharge for sponsorship fees. Will shortly be subject to a government crackdown aimed at protecting overseas workers, many of whom are vulnerable. The days of negligible consequences for such breaches are