Reform UK has vowed to jail bosses behind companies that employ illegal migrants, and said it would impose fines on larger firms equivalent to 10% of their global revenues.

The party said the measures are intended to stop delivery and gig economy businesses benefiting from illegal working “without consequences”.

Personal Liability for Corporate Leaders

Reform’s plans, unveiled ahead of the next general election, would introduce a law making chief executives and directors of large companies personally and criminally liable if they profited from employing illegal workers.

The party said liability would apply regardless of whether company leaders knew their staff did not have the right to work in the UK.

Reform said the approach would mirror the personal responsibility of senior managers for financial misconduct under Financial Conduct Authority rules.

The party also proposed a dedicated phone line for the public to report suspected illegal working or organised criminal activity. It said police and other authorities, including trading standards teams, would be required to investigate reports.

Reform said it would reward reports that lead to successful prosecutions with a share of any fines generated.

Fines and Tougher Penalties

Reform said it would fine larger firms 10% of their global revenues where they employ illegal workers. Party home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf said young people were being “shut out” of entry-level jobs, and that illegal working undermined the wider economy.

Yusuf added that Reform would introduce the “toughest penalties anywhere in the world” for illegal working.

The pledge comes as existing enforcement already results in penalties for breaches of immigration rules. In June, a council was fined £45,000 after employing one illegal worker.

Home Office Says Measures Are Already Being Done

The Home Office said it was already increasing penalties for employers who hire illegal workers. A source within the department described parts of Reform’s proposals as “empty posturing”.

A Home Office spokesperson said the government is extending right-to-work checks to the gig economy and delivery sector, aimed at closing loopholes that allow illegal migrants to work.

The department said employers that break the law face consequences including fines of up to £60,000 per illegal worker, as well as business closures, licence revocations and prison sentences of up to five years.

It also said Immigration Enforcement action has risen since Labour came to power, describing it as the highest level in British history, with illegal working arrests up by 83% and raids up by 77%.

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At last someone talking sense Zia' should also target those peddling false data' on the colossal migrant numbers entering via all routes' not just rubber boats' roaming our towns intimidating raping, stealing, and murdering those at the sharp end ...us 🤔

I can already hear the leftists wailing about who will deliver their smashed avocado and marinated tofu on artisanal sourdough bread if the likes of Deliveroo were not allowed to get away with using illegal boat migrants to make the delivery.

"Waaaah, but, but, but no English people want to do these jobs. Waaaaahhhh".

Yes, they might not want to do those jobs but couple this with the loss of benefits if they did not should focus some minds of the workshy native English people. Of course the cost of delivery might go up if illegal boat migrants cannot deliver, so another consequence might be that the woke fatties will have to get off their ample backsides and go and pick up their own food.

But who's going to build the prisons to put them in if they do that.

33 minutes ago, Bannoi said:

But who's going to build the prisons to put them in if they do that.

Just let out all the social media posters jailed under Labour.

Yeah, right, let's prevent immigrants an honest job. They can go back to theft, carjacks and rape gangs.

BTW, notice none of those UK Immigration police is wearing a mask! I bet they even have badges and nametags!

There could be a food shortage if there is no one to pick the produce ,

can anyone remember "Potato picking week" when we got a week off

school to go picking potatoes for the famers ,cannot see today's kids

getting their hands dirty ....

regards Worgeordie

Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker

Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.

Turn us into a nation of snitches

Reform UK pledges to reward public for illegal working ti...

The party says it would pay for information leading to successful action against employers breaking the law.

This is doing the rounds. You're not allowed to ask "how". Snazzy infographic though.

https://forums-images.pistonheads.com/33721/202608108121376?resize=720

Broadly:

1. Royal Navy gunboats to shoot up dinghies. Paid for by taxpayers.

2. Militarise the borders and coastline. Paid for by taxpayers.

3. Set up Con Air for illegal immigrants. Persuade 3rd party countries to accept people they don't want. Paid for by taxpayers.

4. Deport Thai wives. Paid for by taxpayers.

5. More non-immigrant doctors and nurses from the magic Healthcare tree (its a bit like Grandpa Corbyn's magic money tree). Lots of new hospitals and facilities paid for by taxpayers.

6. Restore Britain's Sovereignty, which means cancel the GFA, start up the Troubles again.

7. More coppers. Probably "on the beat", walking. More police stations. Replicate the Irish Gard policy, which was at one point to put a couple of usually drunk coppers on every major street corner. Paid for by taxpayers.

8. Make Work Pay. Cut the dole. Force more 65 year old redundant office managers with angina to take up brick laying in the middle of summer. Or else. Paid for by taxpayers.

9. Forgot to mention drill baby drill. Unleash fracking and mini earthquakes in the Lake District.

10. Subsidise farmers like Jeremy Clarkson. Because he's British.

11. Support Leicester sweat shops making cheap socks.

12. Cut corporation taxes, while at the same time paying for lots of cops, sailors, gucci military kit, Con Air, fighting the new IRA, paying for lots of doctors.

13. Ban curries, pizzas and Chinese takeaways, as these are not British.

14. Bigger armed forces. See points 1, 2, maybe 3 and 6, indicating when they drew up basically a random list and fed it into the AI Infographic machine, they were pissed as newts.

15. Free Viagra for White people. Paid for by taxpayers.

16. Lazy bastards can get jobs because of the colour of their passports

17. Not sure how foreign businesses will want to invest here when they are told they are back of the line behind the company employing the lazy bastards making socks

18. They don't know what the technologies of the future will be. So they will spaff public money looking at teleportation, time travel, warp speed, but absolutely will not be investing in new vaccine technologies or technologies that can reverse genetic abnormalities in neonates as that will be against God's Will.

19. Kind of inevitable as more taxpayer money will be transferred to foreign entities to hopefully entice them to invest in Britain in order to be back of the queue behind the sock making factory. But you can't call incentives for FDI "foreign aid".

20. Doge worked well.

The same people who say the illegal immigrants are doctors and engineers also made Jason Arday a professor and preach 'diversity is our strength.'