{"id":158401,"date":"2025-06-04T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158401\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:30:11","slug":"restaurant-fined-180000-for-illegal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158401\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant fined \u00a3180,000 for illegal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the UK, there were 489 penalties issued, 771 illegal workers found, and \u00a329.2m in penalties issued.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Portofino-Italian-restaurant-in-New-Brighton-Wirral.jpg\" alt=\"Portofino Italian restaurant in New Brighton, Wirral.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Portofino Italian restaurant in New Brighton, Wirral.(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Wirral seaside restaurant was fined \u00a3180,000 last year for employing people illegally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Portofino Italiana, an Italian restaurant on Marine Promenade in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/new-brighton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">New Brighton<\/a> is a popular location for those visiting the seaside resort, with views looking out towards the marine lake. However the UK Government found it was employing people illegally and issued a fine towards the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The restaurant was named in the latest data published by the government for illegal working civil penalties between October 1 and December 31 2024. Across the UK, there were 489 penalties issued, 771 illegal workers found, and \u00a329.2m in penalties issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">This data, published on May 31, shows Portofino (New Brighton) Ltd based at 2 Marine Promenade was fined \u00a3180,000. This is one of the largest penalties issued between October and December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The list of employers is published every three months. It details fines given to \u201cemployers who have not paid or are not making regular payments towards a penalty 28 days after they have exhausted all their objection and\/or appeal rights\u201d and \u201cemployers who have been served with a second or further penalty once they have exhausted all their objection and\/or appeal rights regardless of whether any payment has been made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Portofino were approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across the UK, there were 489 penalties issued, 771 illegal workers found, and \u00a329.2m in penalties issued.Portofino Italian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,2647,16,15,8881,9313],"class_list":{"0":"post-158401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-new-brighton","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wirral","16":"tag-wirral-council"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114626994063377406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}