Asylum and immigration act

WHA

amarillo_2004 wrote:

Nancy, this leaves a nasty taste in the mouth and I think you should challenge the basis on which the request is being made. And I think you should do it with the power of your union behind you. If you aren't in a union then I strongly urge you to join one. Employers get away with this sort of nonsense (and between the lines it reads more like racist nastinesss) because workers don't have strength on their own. Together we do. https://www.unison.org.uk is a good starting point for info about your rights. Presumably your employer has your National Insurance number, and this is evidence enough that you are working legally. Good luck.

After having read Nancy's original message, I cannot see any reference to her race. If she is not "white/british" and is the only person in the firm being asked for these documents, then she is being racially discriminated against and should take action. However, I think the above poster is making a few too many assumptions. We don't know whether it is only "non white" staff being asked for this information, and we don't know her race. In fact, she has not posted anything after the initial post, even in response to quite a lot of helpful comments.

As already mentioned, employers have a legal obligation to ensure their staff are entitled to work in this country and they face prosecution if they dont. In fact, in the weekend papers, there was a report about an investigation into staff employed in a hospital - solely to discover whether the staff were legally entitled to work - so the "powers that be" are serious about following through this new law. It is not the employers who are doing this - they are being forced to do it by new laws!