Face to face id check, copy of degree certificate, dividend frequency

[LondonManc]

Let me explain it to you simply.

While you think an agency just deals with one type of worker they don't. Most agencies engage temps, permies and contractors, and many do that in multiple sectors. IT is often just one of those different sectors.

If the Home Office decides to raid the agency offices because they suspect they aren't checking their workers have a right to work in the UK - the Home Office will not care whether the contractors are directors of a limited company or not. All the Home Office will want to see is that the agency are doing some sort of check of worker status.

So you are welcome to refuse to give the agency a scanned copy of your passport, which is a useless form of checking anyway, as you simply won't get the contract.

Any agency or consultancy that does the checking properly will want to see the original of your passport before taking a photocopy.

In the cases were the agency doesn't check your passport - and I've had 2 of those - the client's security office will check your passport.

Sorry but you've not said anything there that goes against what garnet said.

If his assertion is correct that Directors of UK Ltds automatically have the right to work in the UK, then what more proof does the agency need to hold than that the person is a director of the ltd (plus proof of actual ID - passport or driving licence/birth certificate combo).

[SueEllen]

Sorry but you've not said anything there that goes against what garnet said.

If his assertion is correct that Directors of UK Ltds automatically have the right to work in the UK, then what more proof does the agency need to hold than that the person is a director of the ltd (plus proof of actual ID - passport or driving licence/birth certificate combo).

Directors of UK Limiteds don't automatically have the right to work in the UK. A director of a UK company can be anyone in the world as long as they are over 16 and aren't barred from being a director. Also a director of a company can be another company. However at least one director has to be a person.

From experience I have noticed that agencies are a bit thick and don't tend to notice if the director signing the contract is not the worker supplied to do the work on the contract. They automatically assume that every company is a one person company.

[TheFaQQer]

If his assertion is correct that Directors of UK Ltds automatically have the right to work in the UK

It's not.

HTH