Who could possibly believe this?
Posted on Sunday, November 11th, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: Immigration
I think the boffins here at Home Office Watch have worked out the Home Office’s new PR strategy. It’s to make mistakes that are so absurdly over the top that no-one will believe the stories are true.
After all, it would be pretty amazing wouldn’t it if itĀ turned out the Home Office had cleared illegal immigrants work as security staff wouldn’t it? Particularly if some of them then got jobs at the Met Police.
I mean who could possibly believe that?
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November 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Really, this is only an issue that concerns security staff directly employed by a government department. The onus to check whether a job applicant has permission to work in the UK lies with the employer and always has done. Where security staff are employed by a private contractor, then it is they who should make the relevant checks.
The absence of permission to work in the UK does not necessarily mean that that person is a security risk. The vast majority are just trying to earn a living wage which is often not possible in their country of origin. It is worth remembering that The Home Office, like many other departments, contract out security work to private contractors and it is these contractors who are guilty of negligence.
It is not just the security industry who are lax in making the relevant checks with regard to permission to work. There are many employers who fail to make the relevant checks and the individuals they employ will not have undergone any kind of security checks at all. Very few of these employers are called to account for employing illegal workers and yet there seems to be very little concern about this.