Are you doing your Right to Work Checks correctly and what does the future look like?

Published February 2024

Written by Alina Howe-Jones

Alina is a highly accomplished consultant with over 25 years' experience within onboarding and background screening; working with many well-respected industry data suppliers including Experian's own propriety data, to improve screening both in the UK and globally.

It has never been more important to protect your business and ensure you have robust right to work processes in place

The temporary adjusted Right to work checks, as part of the response to COVID-19, ended on 30th September 2022. These changes allowed recruiters to conduct Right to work checks face to face, or remotely.

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What is the risk to me?

The UK Government have announced that businesses that fail to comply with the UK’s Right to Work obligations will see the maximum civil penalty (fines) they can receive increase by over 75%. Therefore it has never been more important to protect your business and ensure you have robust processes in place.

For a business’s first breach of the rules, the fine will increase from £20,000 to £45,000 per illegal worker.
For businesses with recurring violations, if they are identified as hiring illegal workers beyond the first penalty, their fines will escalate to £60,000 for each illegal employee.

How can I learn more?

Watch our recent webinar, with guest speakers from the UK Border Agency and Home Office, where we discussed our obligations, what the future holds for Right to Work checks and how digitisation has landed in market.

Request to watch our recent Right to Work Checks webinar

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How can we help?

Incorporating state of the art document validation and facial recognition technology, our Right to Work App not only helps you to conduct compliant right to work checks, but it validates that the documents provided by the candidate are valid and their own.

Clever optical character recognition technology uses the biographical data captured to auto-populate the fields in the right to work app, meaning the majority of checks can be automatically approved, saving yours and your candidates time.

We can help you make the very best decisions around your recruitment processes.