{"id":568549,"date":"2025-11-13T22:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:40:23","slug":"man-found-illegally-working-issued-with-substantial-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568549\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found illegally working issued with &#8216;substantial fine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The employer could also receive a fine of up to \u00a360,000<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_Screenshot-2025-11-13-151037.png\" alt=\"The Dunes pub \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The man was given a fine (Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"walesonline\">A man has been fined after he was found to be working at a pub illegally. Officers from the Aberavon neighbourhood policing team, alongside immigration officers and the fire service searched The Dunes public house, Wyvern Avenue in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/port-talbot\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Port Talbot<\/a> where they found the worker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"walesonline\">In October the man was found to have been working at the premises illegally and was dealt with a substantial fine imposed by Immigration. The sum of the fine is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"walesonline\">The Home Office civil penalties team will later decide whether the employer will receive a civil penalty which could amount to up to \u00a360,000. <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">For the biggest stories in Wales first, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=aa0abd38-0db5-4492-99f3-e73baecff682&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"walesonline\">Inspector Jared Easton said: &#8220;The laws regarding legal employment are in place for a reason, and one individual has now rightly been fined for flouting these laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"walesonline\">&#8220;This was a great example of partnership working and sends a message that illegal and\/or unsafe working practices will not be tolerated in our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The employer could also receive a fine of up to \u00a360,000The man was given a fine (Image: Google&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,188,4884,103170,14884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-568549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-port-talbot","12":"tag-south-wales-police","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115544800492390799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568549","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=568549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}