Gig economy bosses could face jail time if they fail to check employers can legally work in UK

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1. The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. We know they won’t.

2. I think we should be going alot further when it comes to the ” Gig Economy”, this is such an easy and safe play.

3. Depending what checks are mandated, this might make things very difficult for legitimate British workers who do not have passports or driving licences.

   No doubt it will still be possible to prove right to work but if it takes too long the job will just be given to one of the other applicants.

   Still, serves them right if they cannot afford cars and foreign holidays. I bet some of them even left school before they were 21.

4. Bout freaking time.. These people are literally treated as salves.

5. >The Home Office has announced a crackdown on illegal working which it claims will “undermine” people smugglers using “the false promise of jobs for migrants”.

   Will it really undermine people smugglers?

   They are already breaking the law and, oh, I don’t know, suppose they LIE to the migrants about London’s streets being paved with gold and well-paid jobs for delivery drivers.

   It will undermine the *honest* smugglers and traffickers but I’m not sure there are very many of them to start with.

6. Aren’t they considering realising violent criminals early to free up jails?

7. About time, there are so many delivery drivers it makes no sense, you’ll walk into a restaurant and 1 comes in, followed by another 2 or 3, it’s nearly constant. No way they’re all legit

8. So when “Abby” shows up to my house and it’s a non verbal African man. How are they going to check that?

9. I’ve reported 17 times to uber eats and Deliveroo and just eat, in 2025 alone. Nothing happened.

10. I love that both left and right wing people will agree with this but for very different reasons and it still won’t be enforced.

11. I’ve mentioned this before, they need to start lower down. It’s the person renting out their account who needs to be heavily fined first. Fine them £65,000 per person they rent it out to and the rentals will stop overnight.

    After that, you can go after the bigger company if they haven’t checked their original people first.

12. The more money you have the less consequences. Most result in zero actions anyway.

13. All the SMEs who have to go through check after check for business contracts etc and modern slavery regs or risk all sorts of trouble and these charlatans get away with it..

14. The problem is that it is so easy to claim the identity of someone who does have the right to work in the UK and for employers to take that at face value. It is already an issue and could easily get worse if there is an actual risk of jail time for bosses (if doing some heavy lifting there). Bosses should be jailed and those workers should be deported, while those selling their identity should be fined and jailed.

15. I’ve always found it funny that if The Gov wanted to crack down on illegal immigration, then the best way to do it would just be to allow civil servants to order Deliveroo as a legitimate work expense and then investigate everyone who turns up looking different to the profile picture.

16. Employers, employees… what’s the difference, right Sky?

    Hopelessly poor editing skills!!

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