CHANGES to the system that employers will have to use to carry out right-to-work checks in the future risks creating “confusion”, experts say.
From April 6, employers will need to navigate a new online checking system if they want to continue to carry out right-to-work checks virtually for UK and Irish nationals.
Before the pandemic firms onboarding new recruits carried out physical checks of passports and visual verification of individuals.
These rules were relaxed in March 30, 2020 as remote working began to allow for virtual checks, with new employees holding up their passports to their screen at home. These current concessions are to be abolished from April 2022, and instead there will be a Government approved program that will allow employers to verify passports and other documents by using a digital photo/scan of the document. However, there will be a cost to this which could be anything from a few pounds to 60-70 per applicant!
The decision has surprised many employers who had expected existing (and free) government ID checking systems to be used. The only alternative is for employers to go back to checking the original passports of these people and save themselves from having to pay any fees.
Sally Gwilliam, a senior employment law solicitor with Harper James, said: “The news that the Government has confirmed that digital right to work checks will continue permanently after April 2022 has generally been welcomed by employers, and was something the recruitment...
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