The only reason these dodgy companies hire people with no right to work here is to skirt our hard fought for employment laws. If they are allowed to just get away with infringing them when they do it to illegal workers it gives them an incentive to keep hiring illegal workers.
allen_jb on
TLDR: Just because you’re employing someone illegally, doesn’t mean you can discriminate against them. And just because you’ve been employed illegally, that doesn’t mean you lose all your rights.
She appears to have been promised a work visa which never materialized.
As I read it, her employer knew she had asthma, but she was required to do work such as cleaning that would be likely to trigger attacks. She was denied sick leave after an attack.
She was the only employee required to show her passport to collect her wages. The employer also had a history of failing to pay female employees on time.
The company was also fined for employing illegal immigrants.
The Telegraph has previously complained that immigrants aren’t forced to integrate to our beliefs. Here an immigrant and their Chinese national employer are being treated exactly as any native would be, yet they still complain.
Jaded_Strain_3753 on
Sounds like a fair decision on the merits. The company has already been fined for hiring illegal workers. The article doesn’t make her current visa status clear, but hopefully she will or has faced appropriate consequences for the visa abuse.
allen_jb on
Archive link: https://archive.is/u0sEq (seems our AI overlords are just as prone to laziness as us humans)
Successful-League840 on
As long as they are paying their taxes and contributing good for them!
Edit: My bad I didn’t read it correctly she never got paid Hardly her fault though. ☹️
Antique_Historian_74 on
Company found to be breaking employment law is unsurprisingly also breaking other employment laws.
Or does the the telegraph think a company should be free to abuse its employees if the employee is here illegally?
limeflavoured on
The description sounds a lot like modern slavery tbh, and the employer was also prosecuted and fined £10k
The amount of compensation will be interesting.
pintofendlesssummer on
He can now pay any backdated tax and national insurance owed.win win.
WinHour4300 on
Great, but we should still deport her and ban her from future visitor visas, seeing as she broke the terms of the last one. But we probably won’t.
d0ey on
Two things from this article:
£10k fine for employing illegal immigrants with no evidence of right to work checks is abysmal. That’s near enough a cost of doing business.
She absolutely shouldn’t be eligible for compensation for actively entering into a contract for work that was illegal. The company should be fined an equivalent amount but she should not receive it as she was at no point eligible to work in the first place.
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The only reason these dodgy companies hire people with no right to work here is to skirt our hard fought for employment laws. If they are allowed to just get away with infringing them when they do it to illegal workers it gives them an incentive to keep hiring illegal workers.
TLDR: Just because you’re employing someone illegally, doesn’t mean you can discriminate against them. And just because you’ve been employed illegally, that doesn’t mean you lose all your rights.
She appears to have been promised a work visa which never materialized.
As I read it, her employer knew she had asthma, but she was required to do work such as cleaning that would be likely to trigger attacks. She was denied sick leave after an attack.
She was the only employee required to show her passport to collect her wages. The employer also had a history of failing to pay female employees on time.
The company was also fined for employing illegal immigrants.
The Telegraph has previously complained that immigrants aren’t forced to integrate to our beliefs. Here an immigrant and their Chinese national employer are being treated exactly as any native would be, yet they still complain.
Sounds like a fair decision on the merits. The company has already been fined for hiring illegal workers. The article doesn’t make her current visa status clear, but hopefully she will or has faced appropriate consequences for the visa abuse.
Archive link: https://archive.is/u0sEq (seems our AI overlords are just as prone to laziness as us humans)
As long as they are paying their taxes and contributing good for them!
Edit: My bad I didn’t read it correctly she never got paid Hardly her fault though. ☹️
Company found to be breaking employment law is unsurprisingly also breaking other employment laws.
Or does the the telegraph think a company should be free to abuse its employees if the employee is here illegally?
The description sounds a lot like modern slavery tbh, and the employer was also prosecuted and fined £10k
The amount of compensation will be interesting.
He can now pay any backdated tax and national insurance owed.win win.
Great, but we should still deport her and ban her from future visitor visas, seeing as she broke the terms of the last one. But we probably won’t.
Two things from this article:
£10k fine for employing illegal immigrants with no evidence of right to work checks is abysmal. That’s near enough a cost of doing business.
She absolutely shouldn’t be eligible for compensation for actively entering into a contract for work that was illegal. The company should be fined an equivalent amount but she should not receive it as she was at no point eligible to work in the first place.
Here’s the judgment despite the Telegraph’s spin. [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a059d8dee62840dba48a275/Ms_E_C_L_Ong_v_Yatson___Co_Ltd_-_2411704_2023_-_Reserved.pdf](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a059d8dee62840dba48a275/Ms_E_C_L_Ong_v_Yatson___Co_Ltd_-_2411704_2023_-_Reserved.pdf)
Compensate *and* then prosecute / deport for working on a holiday visa.