We say we don’t want companies to illegally hire, yet when they do and face the consequences of it, we get sob stories like this that basically state “actually businesses should be able to break the law if it’s more profitable to do.”
We can’t have low fines, otherwise companies just treat it as a cost of doing business… I’m sure we’ve all seen stories of big companies knowingly breaking the law and being fined pennies, and things like small companies fly tipping because occasionally being caught works out cheaper than proper waste management.
The onus is on the hiring company to check if the person has all the required paperwork and has a legal right to work.
I swear people just want to be unhappy.
We say we don’t want companies to illegally hire, yet when they do and face the consequences of it, we get sob stories like this that basically state “actually businesses should be able to break the law if it’s more profitable to do.”
We can’t have low fines, otherwise companies just treat it as a cost of doing business… I’m sure we’ve all seen stories of big companies knowingly breaking the law and being fined pennies, and things like small companies fly tipping because occasionally being caught works out cheaper than proper waste management.
The onus is on the hiring company to check if the person has all the required paperwork and has a legal right to work.
Which is not exactly hard. The people who hire illegal workers do so to save money, not because it’s somehow hard to check a piece of paper.