Comments on: Baroness Scotland fined for employing illegal worker http://www.hrreview.co.uk/hrreview-articles/hr-strategy-practice/baroness-scotland-fined-for-employing-illegal-worker/4090 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:42:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Graham Ellis http://www.hrreview.co.uk/hrreview-articles/hr-strategy-practice/baroness-scotland-fined-for-employing-illegal-worker/4090/comment-page-1#comment-825 Graham Ellis Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:44:49 +0000 http://www.hrreview.co.uk/?p=4090#comment-825 One can't help wondering if the 5000 pound charge would have been much less if employer had simply been able to ask for the papers again and take a copy when the clerical error had come to light. I wonder if the papers actually exist(ed) in the first place ... and if the level of fine is more in line with the level that would be applied to someone who hadn't actually checked their new employee at all ... One can’t help wondering if the 5000 pound charge would have been much less if employer had simply been able to ask for the papers again and take a copy when the clerical error had come to light. I wonder if the papers actually exist(ed) in the first place … and if the level of fine is more in line with the level that would be applied to someone who hadn’t actually checked their new employee at all …

]]> By: Graham Wilson http://www.hrreview.co.uk/hrreview-articles/hr-strategy-practice/baroness-scotland-fined-for-employing-illegal-worker/4090/comment-page-1#comment-823 Graham Wilson Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:28:22 +0000 http://www.hrreview.co.uk/?p=4090#comment-823 So, what we exactly are we left knowing as a result of this? It seems to me that the real idiots in this are the UK Border Agency for prosecuting someone for failing to keep the papers that prove that they asked the UKBA to do its job in the first place!? Is it really even newsworthy? Regards, Graham. So, what we exactly are we left knowing as a result of this? It seems to me that the real idiots in this are the UK Border Agency for prosecuting someone for failing to keep the papers that prove that they asked the UKBA to do its job in the first place!?

Is it really even newsworthy?
Regards, Graham.

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