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Losing Personal Data Now UK Civil Offense
digitaltrends.com
15.05.2008

ImageThe "reckless" loss of personal data, so prevalent lately in the UK, has become a civil offence, marking a victory of data privacy campaigners; those found guilty could face large fines.
The loss of personal data by government agencies and companies has been in the spotlight in Britain since last year, when Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs – the tax people – lost two discs containing information on 25 million people. Since then there have been many more revelations of data loss, including many laptops with unencrypted data stolen. But it was difficult to punish anyone who’d be cavalier with the data, as it wasn’t an offence.
Now it is. The government has made it a civil offence, meaning that offenders could be given large fines. However, it was touch and go as to whether it might be a criminal offence. The House of Lords voted for it to be criminal, but was overruled by the Commons, who voted for just civil penalties as an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act.
The legislation has been well-received by advocates of data privacy. In a statement, deputy information commissioner, David Smith, said:
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Illegal workers could cost boss 40,000 pounds
thisissouthdevon.co.uk
15.05.2008

ImageA restaurant owner in Teignmouth faces a fine of up to £40,000 after illegal workers were traced to his premises in the resort.One chef found at the Naz Indian Cuisine in Somerset Place has already been removed from the UK while another and two waiters face the same fate. Immigration officials raided the restaurant after receiving intelligence about possible illegal workers. They pounced on May 1 and checked documentation of staff, establishing four Bangladeshi men they checked out were suspects. Each was arrested and taken to Torquay Police Station for questioning. Immigration officials have just released details of the arrests. A 30-year-old chef has since been removed from the UK while the other three, aged 25, 30 and 31, are in the process of being sent back to Bangladesh.
A spokesman for the UK Border Agency who carried out the swoop said the restaurant owner faces a civil penalty fine in the wake of the arrests. He said: "The owner has 28 days to provide evidence the correct checks were carried out to employ the workers or face a fine of up to £10,000 for each illegal worker employed."
He said the 30-year-old chef was removed from the country on May 8.
"Steps are being taken to remove the other three Bangladeshi men," he added.
The spokesman revealed immigration officers issued the owner of the restaurant with four on-the-spot notices, warning he may receive civil penalties for employing illegal workers.
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Skilled migrants have longer wait for visas
Telegraph
14.05.2008

ImageThe new UK Border Agency has admitted that it is taking far longer than promised to process skilled migrant applications. The agency blamed "resource pressures" for the delays, despite significant increases in the fees it levies on employers. It said that instead of deciding 90pc of applications within 15 working days, it was now taking around four weeks to process even "straightforward" applications. The agency also asked individual migrants and employers not to contact its visa application teams for "at least 15 working days" and its visa decision review teams until "at least four weeks" after submitting an application. It is understood that one of the reasons for the delay is that the agency had allocated staff to handle employer-sponsorship applications that did not materialise because it delayed the disclosure of the rules governing employer migrant sponsorship until last Tuesday.
"What we have been promised is a high level service," said Neil Carberry, from employer organisation the CBI, which has complained that the system its not working as well as the Government promised when it hiked the cost of bringing skilled migrant labour into the UK.
There has been a 135pc increase in the current skilled work permit fee and smaller companies only seeking to hire one or two migrants each year face a further 580pc jump in the fees to bring them into the country under the new points-based immigration system being phased in this year.
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UK: Tier 2 visa details revealed
workpermit.com
14.05.2008

ImageThe UK Border Agency has published details about the upcoming Tier 2 visa for skilled workers. Tier 2 is expected to replace the current UK Work Permits scheme and international intra-company transfer regulations in Autumn of 2008.
Tier 2 is part of the UK's new five-tier points based system which will replace some 80 different employment, student, and training based immigration routes into the UK. Under Tier 2, employers can hire overseas workers if a vacancy is covered under the shortage occupation list or the employer has submitted a Resident Labour Market test. This test shows that a non-European Union/European Economic Area resident could not be found to fill the vacancy. A Tier 2 visa can be obtained for up to a renewable period of three years.
Newly published details lay out the points prospective applicants can score to be successful in their application for a Tier 2 visa. Migrants must score a total of 70 points under three areas: Attributes, Maintenance, and English Language Ability.
Under the Attributes section, prospective migrants workers can score a maximum of 50 points for their certificate of sponsorship, which they obtain from their future employer. They can also score a maximum of 15 points for their highest level qualification, such as a bachelor's degree. In addition, they can score up to 20 points for their prospective earnings.
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Migrant clampdown 'will leave fruit to rot'
Telegraph
14.05.2008

ImageMillions of pounds worth of strawberries, raspberries and other soft fruit is likely to go to waste this summer as farmers struggle to find anyone to pick it, they have warned. They are blaming new immigration rules that have slashed the numbers of seasonal agricultural workers allowed to enter the country by a third. But many migrants are also being put off by the falling value of the pound, while their own countries' economies are also taking off. Britain's soft fruit industry has grown at seven per cent per annum in recent years, and is now worth £220 million. However, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) fears that growth could be halted by a severe lack of labour, with fruit simply left to rot in the fields. Last year an estimated £20 million of fruit and vegetables went unpicked, but this year the situation could be much worse, said Richard Hirst, chairman of the NFU.
He said: "If we have some hot weather and fruit and veg ripen more quickly, then there aren't going to be enough people. When it's ready you can't just leave it in the fields.
"We are actually looking at it being much worse than last year."
He said the labour shortage was affecting fruit, vegetable and flower farmers.
Mr Hirst blamed new rules which have reduced the number of workers allowed under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme (SAWS) from 25,000 a year in 2003 to 16,250.
The scheme has also been narrowed so that only citizens of Bulgaria and Romania can apply. Last year, 40 per cent of the allocated placements were for migrants from those two countries while 60 per cent were for non European Economic Area countries.
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