Sooooo...

[toothycat]

I'm required to bring to work proof that I'm entitled to work in the UK.

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[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

If you're a British citizen/subject, your passport suffices.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hm. Yeah, I had to do that. And then I thought, hold on, didn't they already have my NI number? How else have they been putting me through payroll all these years...?

[toothycat]

Yeah. It was just a bit unexpected, given I've been working here for six years ^^; My first thought was, "they do know I'm naturalised, right?" Seems they do. Ah, well :)

[toothycat]

According to the Home Office document they showed me, an NI number on its own is not enough proof. An NI number and UK birth certificate or certificate of naturalization would be.

[ex-robhu.livejournal.com]

Are they required to ask you this?

[soundslikebuuu.livejournal.com]

None of us newbies got that e-mail. XD Maybe they forgot to ask for people's passports previously.

[toothycat]

They're required to ask "prospective employees" this. After talking to them it looks like they're asking everyone they've not got photocopies of documentation on file for, so it's not just me.

[aneiryn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're papanoid like this about us naturalised citizens!

[aneiryn.livejournal.com]

I meant paranoid ^^'

[dock.livejournal.com]

So do I! D:

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

Pretty standard, I've been checking people's Right to Work stuff for the last year at work, I'm starting to bring my passport to job interviews.

[wrh-2005.livejournal.com]

Well my sister just got a job with the Agency at the place I work and she had to bring proof of nationality with her to the interview, and like all my family were all born and raised in England.?! O_o

It sounds pretty dumb but they seem to do this for everyone.

[samholloway.livejournal.com]

I know a couple of people who've recently been asked to do this. It seems that some workplaces are suddenly panicking about ensuring everything is up to date. Who knows what they'd do if they found they'd been employing someone illegally!

[pinkapplejam.livejournal.com]

"LOL WHUT" for both of you!!

[cathedral-life.livejournal.com]

Lambeth Council recently did this passport thing too, for all of its traffic wardens. Well, actually the subsidary company used to employ the wardens changed and they brought in the passport thing. However, the new employer didn't need to do anything because come Monday morning, around 90% of employees failed to turn up for work. Eeep.

[von-pud.livejournal.com]

It's probably part of the change in UK employment law which is coming into effect ins a few months time. We had to do something similar at work recently. Not sure of the full details of it but it doesn't appear to be anything scary.

I think its something of a "Shit, we've kind of opened the flood-gates in recent years. We should probably do something about that" kind of thing.

Not a problem for people who are here and working and whatnot, but all companies need to do something of an audit of the nationalities they employ. I think. I could be talking out of my arse here, but I'm sure at least half of it is right.