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8 minutes agoI 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 stories like this.
We can’t have low fines, otherwise business 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.
Probably a good thing that will benefit us.
The problem is, like with most things this government seems to be doing, we won’t feel the benefit for a long time. People are impatient and they want results now.
Whether that’s reasonable or not doesn’t matter. It’s the reality, it affects polling, and will affect the next general election.
Things like this, the planning reforms, the infrastructure spending they’re doing, SureStart 2.0, NHS improvements, green subsidies, etc won’t start to bear fruit until Reform are in, and they’ll benefit from it, only to then tear it all down so the next government inherits the same poisoned chalice this government did last year.