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The UK does fine employers, its not sufficient to stop it because people work through dodgy contractors. The UK also fines landlords which has caused problems
by graemep 2y ago
The UK does fine employers, its not sufficient to stop it because people work through dodgy contractors.
The UK also fines landlords which has caused problems for people who look or sound foreign, including some British citizens (especially poor ones who tend not to have passports which are the easiest documents to check).
The best proposal I have heard is to provide a cash reward to illegal immigrants for turning in people who knowingly employ them illegally.
The fact that governments do not try these solutions makes me suspect they want to keep that supply of cheap labour - most illegals here work for well under minimum wage.
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoYeah, it's totally doable for the US to deport all the illegal immigrants. The consequences would most likely be pretty high inflation, but it's totally doable. While I dislike the UK requirement to have a passport on your first day at work, I understand why it exists.
- ajmurmann 2y agoWhat makes it hard to investigate the dodgy contractors? I don't fully understand why this is harder than identifying illegal immigrants.
- graemep 2y agoThe dodgy contractors take a markup for taking the risk away from employers. A lot of them are criminals with connections to people smugglers, are both willing and able to get away with things someone with a more legitimate business would not. They are a layer of plausible deniability.
- ajmurmann 2y agoI get the isolation the contractors provide but why can't one audit the contractors?