WEB 1214 Employing Migrant Workers

Level: Basic – Intermediate

Description:

A basic to intermediate level course aimed at those who do not yet feel confident with sponsorship and business immigration. We will take a closer look at the requirements for employers and workers, and how the sponsorship system impacts them post-Brexit.

Topics:

• Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility sponsorship, and the requirements for employers and workers;

• specific issues such as advertising, new overseas hires, salary points scoring, and applications to the Home Office (eg priority for licences and Defined CoS allocations);

• the impact of the new rules – what’s simpler, and what hidden issues may arise, and;

• alternative immigration routes for those avoiding the sponsorship scheme.

The aim of the course is to expand and develop knowledge of business immigration law. We will demystify the sponsorship system and equip attendees to speak with confidence and precision on this tricky subject.

Audience:

This course is suited to all immigration practitioners and HR personnel for UK companies wishing to sponsor migrant workers.

Tutors: Shara Pledger, Pinsent Masons LLP and Laura Darnley, Brabners

Shara has worked in the area of UK immigration with since 2010 and heads up the immigration team within Pinsent Masons UK. She handles sponsor licensing applications for employers as well as other complex Points Based System issues. Shara has comprehensive experience with applications for entrepreneurs/innovators and investors, and with assisting highly skilled migrants seeking endorsements as ‘Global Talent’. Shara is a co-convener of the ILPA North West working group. Shara delivers ILPA’s ‘Introduction to Business Immigration Law’ and ‘Employing Migrant Workers: Tier 2, sponsorship & alternatives’ training.

Laura is a Legal Director at Brabners, who leads the Business Immigration team. Laura is an experienced employment and business immigration lawyer who has practised for over a decade. She acts for a wide range of clients from individuals, SMEs and owner-managed businesses to national and multinational organisations. She is particularly experienced in acting for clients within the recruitment sector, manufacturing and supply chain, retail and hospitality and financial services.

Laura regularly advises on employer sponsorship, the requirements of the Resident Labour Market Test, the prevention of illegal working, the immigration implications of mergers and acquisitions and the business visitor rules. Laura often advises on complicated overlapping employment and immigration law issues which arise during recruitment, during the employment relationship or at the point of termination such as dismissing sponsored employees. Most recently, she has been helping clients prepare for Brexit and the impact of the end of free movement on their businesses. Laura also delivers in-house training on employment and business immigration law to clients.