{"id":173,"date":"2016-08-25T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/?p=173"},"modified":"2017-03-14T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:14:23","slug":"employment-of-illegal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Employment of Illegal Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of provisions in the Immigration Act 2016 came into force on 12 July 2016, these include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new criminal offence of employing an illegal worker where the employer has <strong>reasonable cause to believe<\/strong> that a person is an illegal worker. Previously employers had to <strong>knowingly<\/strong> employ an illegal worker for an offence to be committed<\/li>\n<li>Increased powers for Immigration Officers to enter business premises to search for documents and to take and retain evidence of an offence<\/li>\n<li>A new power to close premises for up to 48 hours where a business employs illegal workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further information is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/penalties-for-employing-illegal-workers\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/penalties-for-employing-illegal-workers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of provisions in the Immigration Act 2016 came into force on 12 July 2016, these include A new criminal offence of employing an illegal worker where the employer has reasonable cause to believe that a person is an illegal worker. Previously employers had to knowingly employ an illegal worker for an offence to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aquilahr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}