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Employment News
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Lecture Notes
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Immigration

Locked	Date	Title	Author	Type	Abstract
		The Highly Skilled Migrant Programme
	18 May 2007	Consultations on illegal working, additional paternity leave and trade unions		Employment News	The Government has recently issued three consultations relating to the employment field:
	17 Jun 2007	Commercial Immigration	Sally Adams, Kingsley Napley	Lecture Notes
	7 Aug 2007	ELA Response to the Border & Immigration Agency’s Consultation on the Implementation of New Powers to Prevent Illegal Migrant Working in the UK		Consultations	In May 2007, the Border and Immigration Agency (the "BIA", which is part of the Home Office) issued a consultation paper dealing with the proposed implementation of new powers (contained in the Immigr...
	8 Nov 2007	Dismissal Over Mistake as to Immigration Status was Potentially Fair	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	The Court of Appeal, in Klusova v Hounslow London Borough Council, has confirmed that a genuine but mistaken belief in the unlawfulness of an employee’s employment under immigration rules is a potenti...
	23 Nov 2007	Employers of Illegal Immigrants to Face Fines of Up to £10,000	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	The Government has announced that, from February 2008, employers who negligently hire illegal workers will face a new system of civil penalties, under which they could face a maximum fine of £10,000 f...
	1 May 2008	A Guide to the New Illegal Working Laws	Robert Davies and Elaine McIlroy, Dundas & Wilson	ELA Briefing	It is important for employers and practitioners to be aware of the recent changes that introduced new criminal and civil offences relating to the employment of illegal workers. Sections 15 to 26 of th...
	1 Jul 2008	The Complexities of Employing Migrant workers	Alexandra Porter, Thomas More Chambers	ELA Briefing	Criminal sanctions have long applied to employers employing individuals subject to immigration control whose leave to remain is not valid or who have not been granted leave to enter or remain in the U...
	1 Oct 2008	In Brief - New Points-Based System	David Cubitt, Osborne Clarke	ELA Briefing	Transferees need to grasp issues raised by the introduction of tier 2 of the new points-based immigration system this November. UK Border Agency guidance says that where a transferee acquires migrant ...
	1 Oct 2008	Firma Feryn	Laura Prince, Clarendon Chambers	ELA Briefing	In Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en voor racismebestrijding v Firma Feryn, the European Court of Justice was asked to determine whether an employer's public statement that it would not e...