Recruitment background checks

New and updated

• Job applicants with convictions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on R (on the application of P) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and other appeals, in which the Supreme Court considered if the filtering process for DBS checks is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

• Criminal record checks: "Multiple convictions rule" breaches human rights

  Date:

  31 January 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In R (on the application of P) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and other appeals, the Supreme Court held that the criminal record checks rule requiring disclosure where a person has more than one conviction, regardless of the circumstances of the offences, is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

• Supreme Court rejects government appeal on criminal record checks

  Date:

  30 January 2019

  Type:

  News

  The Supreme Court has rejected a government appeal against a human rights ruling won by a group of people who claimed their minor past convictions held them back in life.

• Employing foreign nationals

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the Government's announcement on the position of EEA nationals who enter the UK after Brexit, in the event that no Brexit deal is reached.

• Managing the process following a selection decision

  Type:

  Good practice manual

  Updated to reflect the introduction of online right to work checks, effective from 28 January 2019.

• Permission to work in the UK contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information about online right to work checks, effective from 28 January 2019.

• Letter asking a job applicant to provide evidence of his or her right to work in the UK

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect the introduction of online right to work checks, and removal of the requirement for birth and adoption certificates to be the full certificate to be usable as evidence of the right to work, both effective from 28 January 2019.

• Employing people from abroad policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect the introduction of online right to work checks, effective from 28 January 2019.

• Letter confirming start date of employment subject to proof of permission to work in the UK

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect the introduction of online right to work checks, effective from 28 January 2019.

• Letter withdrawing an offer of employment because a job applicant has failed to provide evidence of his or her right to work in the UK

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect the introduction of online right to work checks, effective from 28 January 2019.