If there was a story more appropriate for the phrase "hoisted on your own petard" I can't think of one.
I don't believe for a second that Patricia Scotland thought she was employing someone who didn't have the right to work in the UK but there are plenty of small business who are in the same boat and have (or will have) been caught in the same situation as her.
Her £5,000 fine is embarrassing for her, it would be enough to sink some small businesses. I think it well worth her pondering that.
Peer Bashing
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James,
I think you are forgetting that a small business in the same situation would have been raided by 2 or 3 dozen goons from the UK Border Agency and face considerable disruption on top of a fine.
An employer in Deptford now sends copies of new employee's papers to the Immigration Dept. This is after an OTT raid a couple of years ago that failed to find any employee who was not entirely legitimate. They keep ringing her and telling her not to send papers but refuse to put it in writing.
More to the point James, if a small businessman claimed £170,000 off the taxpayer for innappropriate reasons, they'd be jailed.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5347341/is-baroness-scotland-finished.thtml
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