Baroness Scotland makes light of £5,000 fine for employing illegal immigrant
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Pull the other one. It's nothing like not paying congestion charge. There are signs all over. Why did she not get the sack. :mad:It's like driving into the City and not paying the congestion charge. It's not a criminal offence,' she told Sky News.
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Though, she has been hoisted by her own petard (or what ever the saying is), and has been fined even though she didn't know, but that was the law she brought in.
Not a sacking offence.
Correction: She says she saw the papers. The only relevant document the police found at the immigrant's house was a passport. Baroness Scotland has no evidence to prove she ever saw them, we only have her word. She never made copies of these documents she supposedly saw, as she was legally obliged to do.
And no-one would ever lie about such a thing to stay out of trouble, would they?
That's the part that sounds dodgy to me. The fact that UKBA are willing, without any evidence, to take her word for it that she checked the documents is grossly unfair to other employers who aren't afforded the same privilege.
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I suspect they'll see a large increase in The Baroness Scotland Defence in future cases, and they'll have little grounds to refuse such a defence given their willingness to accept it from her.
In the case of illegal workers, THEY are the ones committing the offense by working illegally, but every employer is now proxy policeman having to check their worker's legality. And its now obvious that checking is not easy, or clear.
Another bad law by a bad government.
She can take it out of the £160,000 she received for her "second home" and she is still £155,000 to the good.
Well have to admit this was my first thought immediately upon first hearing Baroness Scotland's claim she had, "forgotten to photocopy her housekeeper's passport".