Guidance: Immigration Bill: part 1 - labour market and illegal working

Part 1 of the Bill will deal with exploitation in the labour market by:

• providing a logical enforcement strategy to crack down on serious exploitation of workers by establishing a new director who will oversee the relevant enforcement agencies
• making it a criminal offence to work illegally, seizing illegal workers’ earnings as the proceeds of crime
• making it easier to prosecute employers who deliberately or ‘turn a blind eye’ to employing illegal workers, and making sanctions tougher
• creating powers to close businesses and apply special compliance measures to employers who continue to flout the law
• ensuring that licenses for the sale of alcohol and late night refreshments are subject to compliance with immigration laws