Recruitment background checks

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Job applicants with convictions

  Updated to include information about the Government's proposals to reform the rules on rehabilitation periods, announced on 16 September 2020.

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should employers carry out right to work in the UK checks for European nationals following Brexit?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Why is it important for European nationals in the UK to obtain settled or pre-settled status?

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Employing foreign nationals

  Updated with information on the health and care visa, available from 4 August 2020.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Policy on recruitment of ex-offenders

  Updated to reflect that the Government has made draft Regulations to amend the DBS filtering rules relating to youth cautions and multiple convictions.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Recruiting people to work with children and/or vulnerable adults policy

  Updated to reflect that the Government has made draft Regulations to amend the DBS filtering rules relating to youth cautions and multiple convictions.

• Date:

  10 July 2020

  Type:

  News

  Proposal to erase minor convictions from criminal record checks

  Any person with more than one minor conviction or youth conviction will no longer be required to disclose them to their employer under legislation proposed by the government.

• Type:

  Consultations

  Call for evidence on the shortage occupation list

  The Government calls for evidence from the Migration Advisory Committee in relation to the inclusion of medium-skilled migrant workers on the UK shortage occupation list.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Making job offers

  Updated to reflect changes in entitlement to the written statement of employment particulars and that probationary terms must be included, effective from 6 April 2020.

• Date:

  17 December 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  Right to work: Employer wrong to rely on checking service

  In Badara v Pulse Healthcare Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer should not have relied solely on negative Home Office checks when it dismissed the employee for failing to provide right to work documentation.